Disk arrays are commonly designed to ensure that stored data will always be able to withstand a disk failure, but meeting this goal comes at a significant cost in performance. We ...
A cluster of PCs can be seen as a collection of networked low cost disks; such a collection can be operated by proper so as to provide the abstraction of a single, larger block de...
Alessandro Di Marco, Giovanni Chiola, Giuseppe Cia...
Recently, a number of researchers have started to investigate new video-on-demand (VoD) architectures using batching, patching and periodic broadcasting. These architectures, comp...
Professionals in various elds such as medical imaging, biology, and civil engineering require rapid access to huge amounts of image data. Multimedia interfaces further increase t...
Rolf Muralt, Benoit A. Gennart, Bernard Krummenach...
A number of recent technological trends have made data intensive applications such as continuous media (audio and video) servers a reality. These servers store and retrieve a larg...