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CCGRID
2007
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Design and Implementation of a Middleware for Data Storage in Opportunistic Grids
Shared machines in opportunistic grids typically have large quantities of unused disk space. These resources could be used to store application and checkpointing data when the mac...
Raphael Y. de Camargo, Fabio Kon
CLUSTER
2008
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Reliable adaptable Network RAM
Abstract—We present reliability solutions for adaptable Network RAM systems running on general-purpose clusters. Network RAM allows nodes with over-committed memory to swap pages...
Tia Newhall, Daniel Amato, Alexandr Pshenichkin
VLDB
1998
ACM
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13 years 12 months ago
Buffering and Read-Ahead Strategies for External Mergesort
The elapsed time for external mergesort is normally dominated by I/O time. This paper is focused on reducing I/O time during the merge phase. Three new buffering and readahead str...
Weiye Zhang, Per-Åke Larson
HPCA
2000
IEEE
14 years 2 days ago
Evaluation of Active Disks for Decision Support Databases
Growth and usage trends for large decision support databases indicate that there is a need for architectures that scale the processing power as the dataset grows. To meet this nee...
Mustafa Uysal, Anurag Acharya, Joel H. Saltz
DAMON
2009
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Evaluating and repairing write performance on flash devices
In the last few years NAND flash storage has become more and more popular as price per GB and capacity both improve at exponential rates. Flash memory offers significant bene...
Radu Stoica, Manos Athanassoulis, Ryan Johnson, An...