SIGOPS
2010
13 years 11 months ago
2010
The file system is one of the most critical components of the operating system. Almost all applications running in the operating system require file systems to be available for ...
MASCOTS
2003
14 years 2 months ago
2003
This paper is motivated by a simple question: what are the energy consumption characteristics of mobile storage alternatives? To answer this question, we are faced with a design s...
FAST
2003
14 years 2 months ago
2003
We propose and evaluate the concept of a semantically-smart disk system (SDS). As opposed to a traditional “smart” disk, an SDS has detailed knowledge of how the file system ...
FAST
2007
14 years 2 months ago
2007
For five years, we collected annual snapshots of filesystem metadata from over 60,000 Windows PC file systems in a large corporation. In this paper, we use these snapshots to s...
SIGMETRICS
1991
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
1991
ACM
Prior to this work, all implementations of stack simulation [MGS70] required more than linear time to process an address trace. In particular these implementations are often slow ...
ICDE
1991
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
1991
IEEE
This paper presents a performance comparison of several file system allocation policies. The file systems are designed to provide high bandwidth between disks and main memory by...
HPDC
1995
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
1995
IEEE
New file systems are critical to obtain good I/O performance on large multiprocessors. Several researchers have suggested the use of collective file-system operations, in which ...
MM
1999
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
1999
ACM
Integration—supporting multiple application classes with heterogeneous requirements—is an emerging trend in networks, file systems, and operating systems. In this paper, we e...
DATE
2010
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
2010
IEEE
—Parallel file systems are very sensitive to adverse conditions, and the lack of synergy between such file systems and some of the applications running on them has a negative i...
PVM
2005
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
2005
Springer
We present an algorithm for implementing byte-range locks using MPI passive-target one-sided communication. This algorithm is useful in any scenario in which multiple processes of ...