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2011
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Just-in-Time Analytics on Large File Systems
As file systems reach the petabytes scale, users and administrators are increasingly interested in acquiring highlevel analytical information for file management and analysis. T...
H. Howie Huang, Nan Zhang 0004, Wei Wang, Gautam D...
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2011
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The SCADS Director: Scaling a Distributed Storage System Under Stringent Performance Requirements
Elasticity of cloud computing environments provides an economic incentive for automatic resource allocation of stateful systems running in the cloud. However, these systems have t...
Beth Trushkowsky, Peter Bodík, Armando Fox,...
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2011
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Cost Effective Storage using Extent Based Dynamic Tiering
Multi-tier systems that combine SSDs with SAS/FC and/or SATA disks mitigate the capital cost burden of SSDs, while benefiting from their superior I/O performance per unit cost an...
Jorge Guerra, Himabindu Pucha, Joseph S. Glider, W...
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2011
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FastScale: Accelerate RAID Scaling by Minimizing Data Migration
Previous approaches to RAID scaling either require a very large amount of data to be migrated, or cannot tolerate multiple disk additions without resulting in disk imbalance. In t...
Weimin Zheng, Guangyan Zhang
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2011
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Emulating Goliath Storage Systems with David
Benchmarking file and storage systems on large filesystem images is important, but difficult and often infeasible. Typically, running benchmarks on such large disk setups is a ...
Nitin Agrawal, Leo Arulraj, Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusse...
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2011
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Making the Common Case the Only Case with Anticipatory Memory Allocation
We present Anticipatory Memory Allocation (AMA), a new method to build kernel code that is robust to memoryallocation failures. AMA avoids the usual difficulties in handling allo...
Swaminathan Sundararaman, Yupu Zhang, Sriram Subra...
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2011
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Capo: Recapitulating Storage for Virtual Desktops
Shared storage underlies most enterprise VM deployments because it is an established technology that administrators are familiar with and because it good job of protecting data. H...
Mohammad Shamma, Dutch T. Meyer, Jake Wires, Maria...
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2011
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Tradeoffs in Scalable Data Routing for Deduplication Clusters
As data have been growing rapidly in data centers, deduplication storage systems continuously face challenges in providing the corresponding throughputs and capacities necessary t...
Wei Dong, Fred Douglis, Kai Li, R. Hugo Patterson,...
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2011
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FAST: Quick Application Launch on Solid-State Drives
Application launch performance is of great importance to system platform developers and vendors as it greatly affects the degree of users’ satisfaction. The single most effectiv...
Yongsoo Joo, Junhee Ryu, Sangsoo Park, Kang G. Shi...
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2011
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Leveraging Value Locality in Optimizing NAND Flash-based SSDs
: NAND flash-based solid-state drives (SSDs) are increasingly being deployed in storage systems at different levels such as buffer-caches and even secondary storage. However, the ...
Aayush Gupta, Raghav Pisolkar, Bhuvan Urgaonkar, A...