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...
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...
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...
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...
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...