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DEBU
2010
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13 years 9 months ago
Implementing an Append-Only Interface for Semiconductor Storage
Solid-state disks are currently based on NAND flash and expose a standard disk interface. To accommodate limitations of the medium, solid-state disk implementations avoid rewritin...
Colin W. Reid, Philip A. Bernstein
ENTCS
2008
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14 years 15 days ago
Distributed Verification of Multi-threaded C++ Programs
Verification of multi-threaded C++ programs poses three major challenges: the large number of states, states with huge sizes, and time intensive expansions of states. This paper p...
Stefan Edelkamp, Shahid Jabbar, Damian Sulewski
FAST
2008
14 years 2 months ago
BPLRU: A Buffer Management Scheme for Improving Random Writes in Flash Storage
Flash memory has become the most important storage media in mobile devices, and is beginning to replace hard disks in desktop systems. However, its relatively poor random write pe...
Hyojun Kim, Seongjun Ahn
TEAA
2005
Springer
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14 years 6 months ago
An Efficient Zoning Technique for Multi-dimensional Access Methods
Abstract. In emerging database applications that deal with large sets of multidimensional data, the performance of the query system significantly depends on the performance of its ...
Byunggu Yu, Seon Ho Kim
PDP
2006
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
A Distributed Query Structure to Explore Random Mappings in Parallel
We explore the possibilities to organize a query data structure in the main memories or hard disks of a cluster computer. The query data structure serves to improve the performanc...
Jan Heichler, Jorg Keller
DSN
2006
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Dependability Analysis of Virtual Memory Systems
Recent research has shown that even modern hard disks have complex failure modes that do not conform to “failstop” operation. Disks exhibit partial failures like block access ...
Lakshmi N. Bairavasundaram, Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusse...
EUROSYS
2008
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
GreenFS: making enterprise computers greener by protecting them better
Hard disks contain data—frequently an irreplaceable asset of high monetary and non-monetary value. At the same time, hard disks are mechanical devices that consume power, are no...
Nikolai Joukov, Josef Sipek