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MASCOTS
2001
13 years 6 months ago
Aggregating Caches: A Mechanism for Implicit File Prefetching
We introduce the aggregating cache, and demonstrate how it can be used to reduce the number of file retrieval requests made by a caching client, improving storage system performan...
Ahmed Amer, Darrell D. E. Long
IPPS
1999
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
Linear Aggressive Prefetching: A Way to Increase the Performance of Cooperative Caches
Cooperative caches offer huge amounts of caching memory that is not always used as well as it could be. We might find blocks in the cache that have not been requested for many hou...
Toni Cortes, Jesús Labarta
MASCOTS
2004
13 years 6 months ago
Predicting When Not to Predict
File prefetching based on previous file access patterns has been shown to be an effective means of reducing file system latency by implicitly loading caches with files that are li...
Karl Brandt, Darrell D. E. Long, Ahmed Amer
MDM
2005
Springer
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13 years 10 months ago
STEP: Self-Tuning Energy-safe Predictors
Data access prediction has been proposed as a mechanism to overcome latency lag, and more recently as a means of conserving energy in mobile systems. We present a fully adaptive p...
James Larkby-Lahet, Ganesh Santhanakrishnan, Ahmed...
SOSP
2003
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Decentralized user authentication in a global file system
The challenge for user authentication in a global file system is allowing people to grant access to specific users and groups in remote administrative domains, without assuming ...
Michael Kaminsky, George Savvides, David Mazi&egra...