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Semantically-Smart Disk Systems
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 ...
Muthian Sivathanu, Vijayan Prabhakaran, Florentina...
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2003
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Pond: The OceanStore Prototype
OceanStore is an Internet-scale, persistent data store designed for incremental scalability, secure sharing, and long-term durability. Pond is the OceanStore prototype; it contain...
Sean C. Rhea, Patrick R. Eaton, Dennis Geels, Haki...
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2003
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Using MEMS-Based Storage in Disk Arrays
Current disk arrays, the basic building blocks of highperformance storage systems, are built around two memory technologies: magnetic disk drives, and non-volatile DRAM caches. Di...
Mustafa Uysal, Arif Merchant, Guillermo A. Alvarez
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2003
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ARC: A Self-Tuning, Low Overhead Replacement Cache
Nimrod Megiddo, Dharmendra S. Modha
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2003
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Plutus: Scalable Secure File Sharing on Untrusted Storage
Mahesh Kallahalla, Erik Riedel, Ram Swaminathan, Q...
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2003
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Data Staging on Untrusted Surrogates
We show how untrusted computers can be used to facilitate secure mobile data access. We discuss a novel architecture, data staging, that improves the performance of distributed ...
Jason Flinn, Shafeeq Sinnamohideen, Niraj Tolia, M...
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2003
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Passive NFS Tracing of Email and Research Workloads
We present an analysis of a pair of NFS traces of contemporary email and research workloads. We show that although the research workload resembles previouslystudied workloads, the...
Daniel Ellard, Jonathan Ledlie, Pia Malkani, Margo...
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2003
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Design and Implementation of Semi-preemptible IO
Allowing higher-priority requests to preempt ongoing disk IOs is of particular benefit to delay-sensitive multimedia and real-time systems. In this paper we propose Semi-preempti...
Zoran Dimitrijevic, Raju Rangaswami, Edward Y. Cha...
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2003
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More Than an Interface - SCSI vs. ATA
This paper sets out to clear up a misconception prominent in the storage community today, that SCSI disc drives and IDE (ATA) disc drives are the same technology internally, and d...
Dave Anderson, Jim Dykes, Erik Riedel