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2008
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2008
Conventional prefetching schemes regard prediction accuracy as important because useless data prefetched by a faulty prediction may pollute the cache. If prefetching requires cons...
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2008
14 years 1 months ago
2008
Solid-state disks (SSDs) have the potential to revolutionize the storage system landscape. However, there is little published work about their internal organization or the design ...
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2008
14 years 1 months ago
2008
zation is a well-known method of abstracting physical resources and of separating the manipulation and use of logical resources from their underlying implementation. We have used ...
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2008
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2008
Continuous memory leaks severely hurt program performance and software availability for garbage-collected programs. This paper presents a safe method, called LeakSurvivor, to tole...
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2008
14 years 1 months ago
2008
Through clean-slate implementation of two storage optimizations--track-aligned extents and track-aligned RAIDs--this paper shows the values of independent validations. The experie...
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2008
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2008
This paper presents dsync, a file transfer system that can dynamically adapt to a wide variety of environments. While many transfer systems work well in their specialized context,...
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2008
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2008
Striping is a technique that distributes file content over multiple storage servers and thereby enables parallel access. In order to be able to provide a consistent view across fi...
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2008
14 years 1 months ago
2008
This paper explores the challenges associated with distributed application management in large-scale computing environments. In particular, we investigate several techniques for e...
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2008
14 years 1 months ago
2008
Large-scale scientific and business applications require data processing of ever-increasing amounts of data, fueling a demand for scalable parallel file systems comprising hundred...
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2008
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