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2003
IEEE
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Concept and Evaluation of X-NAS: A Highly Scalable NAS System
Yoshiko Yasuda, Shinichi Kawamoto, Atsushi Ebata, ...
MSS
2003
IEEE
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Reliability Mechanisms for Very Large Storage Systems
Reliability and availability are increasingly important in large-scale storage systems built from thousands of individual storage devices. Large systems must survive the failure o...
Qin Xin, Ethan L. Miller, Thomas J. E. Schwarz, Da...
MSS
2003
IEEE
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Using Multiple Predictors to Improve the Accuracy of File Access Predictions
Existing file access predictors keep track of previous file access patterns and rely on a single heuristic to predict which of the previous successors to the file being currently ...
Gary A. S. Whittle, Jehan-François Pâ...
MSS
2003
IEEE
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IP SAN - From iSCSI to IP-Addressable Ethernet Disks
The initial iSCSI products provide a means to connect FC SAN islands across IP networks. This paper describes the implementation of an IP-SAN where the disk subsystem is a virtual...
Peter Wang, Robert E. Gilligan, Henry Green, Jeff ...
MSS
2003
IEEE
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A Simple Mass Storage System for the SRB Data Grid
The functionality that is provided by Mass Storage Systems can be implemented using data grid technology. Data grids already provide many of the required features, including a log...
Michael Wan, Arcot Rajasekar, Reagan Moore, Phil A...
MSS
2003
IEEE
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SPIRAL: A Client-Transparent Third-Party Transfer Scheme for Network Attached Disks
Third-party transfer is a data transfer mechanism where the party initiating the transfer is neither the source nor the sink for the data. In this paper, we present a scheme for s...
Xiaonan Ma, A. L. Narasimha Reddy
MSS
2003
IEEE
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zFS - A Scalable Distributed File System Using Object Disks
zFS is a research project aimed at building a decentralized file system that distributes all aspects of file and storage management over a set of cooperating machines interconne...
Ohad Rodeh, Avi Teperman
MSS
2003
IEEE
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Data Grids, Collections, and Grid Bricks
Data grids federate storage resources. They provide a logical name space that can be used to register digital entities, a storage repository ion for manipulating data, and a high ...
Arcot Rajasekar, Michael Wan, Reagan Moore, George...
MSS
2003
IEEE
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Media Stability and Life Expectancies of Magnetic Tape for Use with IBM 3590 and Digital Linear Tape Systems
The purpose of this study was to determine the environmental stability and life expectancies of magnetic media used with certain high density, digital recording tape systems, spec...
J. S. Judge, R. G. Schmidt, R. D. Weiss, G. Miller