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USENIX
2008
13 years 7 months ago
Context-Aware Prefetching at the Storage Server
In many of today's applications, access to storage constitutes the major cost of processing a user request. Data prefetching has been used to alleviate the storage access lat...
Gokul Soundararajan, Madalin Mihailescu, Cristiana...
CCGRID
2006
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
Nexus: A Novel Weighted-Graph-Based Prefetching Algorithm for Metadata Servers in Petabyte-Scale Storage Systems
Abstract— An efficient, accurate and distributed metadataoriented prefetching scheme is critical to the overall performance in large distributed storage systems. In this paper, ...
Peng Gu, Yifeng Zhu, Hong Jiang, Jun Wang
ICDCS
2007
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
STEP: Sequentiality and Thrashing Detection Based Prefetching to Improve Performance of Networked Storage Servers
State-of-the-art networked storage servers are equipped with increasingly powerful computing capability and large DRAM memory as storage caches. However, their contribution to the...
Shuang Liang, Song Jiang, Xiaodong Zhang
ICDCS
2008
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
PFC: Transparent Optimization of Existing Prefetching Strategies for Multi-Level Storage Systems
The multi-level storage architecture has been widely adopted in servers and data centers. However, while prefetching has been shown as a crucial technique to exploit the sequentia...
Zhe Zhang, Kyuhyung Lee, Xiaosong Ma, Yuanyuan Zho...
CCGRID
2008
IEEE
13 years 6 months ago
AMP: An Affinity-Based Metadata Prefetching Scheme in Large-Scale Distributed Storage Systems
Prefetching is an effective technique for improving file access performance, which can reduce access latency for I/O systems. In distributed storage system, prefetching for metadat...
Lin Lin, Xueming Li, Hong Jiang, Yifeng Zhu, Lei T...