Buffer caches in operating systems keep active file blocks in memory to reduce disk accesses. Related studies have been focused on how to minimize buffer misses and the caused pe...
I/O bottlenecks are already a problem in many largescale applications that manipulate huge datasets. This problem is expected to get worse as applications get larger, and the I/O ...
Murali Vilayannur, Anand Sivasubramaniam, Mahmut T...
Symmetric shared disks file systems are functional, versatile, and just plain cool. For these file systems to work, they require a global lock space, acessable to all clients. T...
Andrew P. Barry, Mike Tilstra, Matthew T. O'Keefe,...
Usenet is a popular distributed messaging and file sharing service: servers in Usenet flood articles over an overlay network to fully replicate articles across all servers. Howeve...
This paper presents an efficient parallel information retrieval (IR) system which provides fast information service for the Internet users on lowcost high-performance PC-NOW enviro...