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USENIX
2008
14 years 2 months ago
Prefetching with Adaptive Cache Culling for Striped Disk Arrays
Conventional prefetching schemes regard prediction accuracy as important because useless data prefetched by a faulty prediction may pollute the cache. If prefetching requires cons...
Sung Hoon Baek, Kyu Ho Park
USENIX
2008
14 years 2 months ago
Design Tradeoffs for SSD Performance
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 ...
Nitin Agrawal, Vijayan Prabhakaran, Ted Wobber, Jo...
USENIX
2008
14 years 2 months ago
FlexVol: Flexible, Efficient File Volume Virtualization in WAFL
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 ...
John K. Edwards, Daniel Ellard, Craig Everhart, Ro...
USENIX
2008
14 years 2 months ago
LeakSurvivor: Towards Safely Tolerating Memory Leaks for Garbage-Collected Languages
Continuous memory leaks severely hurt program performance and software availability for garbage-collected programs. This paper presents a safe method, called LeakSurvivor, to tole...
Yan Tang, Qi Gao, Feng Qin
USENIX
2008
14 years 2 months ago
A Linux Implementation Validation of Track-Aligned Extents and Track-Aligned RAIDs
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...
Jin Qian, Christopher R. Meyers, An-I Andy Wang
USENIX
2008
14 years 2 months ago
Adaptive File Transfers for Diverse Environments
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,...
Himabindu Pucha, Michael Kaminsky, David G. Anders...
USENIX
2008
14 years 2 months ago
Striping without Sacrifices: Maintaining POSIX Semantics in a Parallel File System
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...
Jan Stender, Björn Kolbeck, Felix Hupfeld, Eu...
USENIX
2008
14 years 2 months ago
Improving Scalability and Fault Tolerance in an Application Management Infrastructure
This paper explores the challenges associated with distributed application management in large-scale computing environments. In particular, we investigate several techniques for e...
Nikolay Topilski, Jeannie R. Albrecht, Amin Vahdat
USENIX
2008
14 years 2 months ago
A Comparative Experimental Study of Parallel File Systems for Large-Scale Data Processing
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...
Zoe Sebepou, Kostas Magoutis, Manolis Marazakis, A...