A major performance bottleneck for database systems is the memory hierarchy. The performance of the memory hierarchy is directly related to how the content of disk pages maps to t...
This paper analyses HPSS performance and, to a lesser extent, characterizes the SDSC HPSS workload, utilizing per-file transfer logs. The performance examined includes disk cache ...
Wayne Schroeder, Richard Marciano, Joe Lopez, Mich...
The designers of a large scale video-on-demand system face an optimization problem of deciding how to assign movies to multiple disks (servers) such that the request blocking proba...
Jun Guo, Eric Wing Ming Wong, Sammy Chan, Peter Ta...
RAID architectures have been used for more than two decades to recover data upon disk failures. Disk failure is just one of the many causes of damaged data. Data can be damaged by...
Virtualization has become much more important throughout the computer industry both to improve security and to support multiple workloads on the same hardware with effective isola...