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IPPS
1998
IEEE
13 years 12 months ago
High-Performance External Computations Using User-Controllable I/O
The UPIO (User-controllable Parallel I/O) we proposed xtends the abstraction of a linear file model into an n-dimensional file model, making it possible to control the layout of d...
Jang Sun Lee, Sung Hoon Ko, Sanjay Ranka, Byung Eu...
ICDCS
1998
IEEE
13 years 12 months ago
Low-Overhead Protocols for Fault-Tolerant File Sharing
In this paper, we quantify the adverse effect of file sharing on the performance of reliable distributed applications. We demonstrate that file sharing incurs significant overhead...
Lorenzo Alvisi, Sriram Rao, Harrick M. Vin
HPCA
1996
IEEE
13 years 12 months ago
Protected, User-Level DMA for the SHRIMP Network Interface
Traditional DMA requires the operating system to perform many tasks to initiate a transfer, with overhead on the order of hundreds or thousands of CPU instructions. This paper des...
Matthias A. Blumrich, Cezary Dubnicki, Edward W. F...
FAST
2009
13 years 5 months ago
BORG: Block-reORGanization for Self-optimizing Storage Systems
This paper presents the design, implementation, and evaluation of BORG, a self-optimizing storage system that performs automatic block reorganization based on the observed I/O wor...
Medha Bhadkamkar, Jorge Guerra, Luis Useche, Sam B...
DIALM
2004
ACM
100views Algorithms» more  DIALM 2004»
14 years 1 months ago
Virtual coordinates for ad hoc and sensor networks
In many applications of wireless ad hoc and sensor networks, position-awareness is of great importance. Often, as in the case of geometric routing, it is sufficient to have virtua...
Thomas Moscibroda, Regina O'Dell, Mirjam Wattenhof...