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2016
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2016
Flash memory is prevalent in modern servers and devices. Coupled with the scaling down of flash technology, the popularity of flash memory motivates the search for methods to in...
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2016
8 years 18 days ago
2016
Existing storage stacks are top-heavy and expect little from block storage. As a result, new high-level storage ions – and new designs for existing abstractions – are difficu...
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2011
12 years 7 months ago
2011
As file systems reach the petabytes scale, users and administrators are increasingly interested in acquiring highlevel analytical information for file management and analysis. T...
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2011
12 years 7 months ago
2011
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...
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2011
12 years 7 months ago
2011
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...
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2011
12 years 7 months ago
2011
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...
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2011
12 years 7 months ago
2011
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 ...
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2011
12 years 7 months ago
2011
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...
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2011
12 years 7 months ago
2011
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...
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2011
12 years 7 months ago
2011
As data have been growing rapidly in data centers, deduplication storage systems continuously face challenges in providing the corresponding throughputs and capacities necessary t...