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...
Many existing clusters use inexpensive Gigabit Ethernet and often have multiple interfaces cards to improve bandwidth and enhance fault tolerance. We investigate the use of Concurr...
Brad Penoff, Mike Tsai, Janardhan R. Iyengar, Alan...
This paper investigates randomization and replication as strategies to achieve reliable performance in disk arrays targeted for video-on-demand (VoD) workloads. A disk array can p...