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SIGOPS
2008
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The case for active block layer extensions
Self-managing storage systems have recently received attention from the research community due to their promised ability of continuously adapting to best reflect high-level system...
Jorge Guerra, Luis Useche, Medha Bhadkamkar, Ricar...
RSA
2006
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Regular graphs whose subgraphs tend to be acyclic
Motivated by a problem that arises in the study of mirrored storage systems, we describe, for any fixed , > 0 and any integer d 2, explicit or randomized constructions of d-r...
Noga Alon, Eitan Bachmat
FGCS
2008
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Making the best of a bad situation: Prioritized storage management in GEMS
As distributed storage systems grow, the response time between detection and repair of the error becomes significant. Systems built on shared servers have additional complexity be...
Justin M. Wozniak, Paul Brenner, Douglas Thain, Aa...
CORR
2010
Springer
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A Survey on Network Codes for Distributed Storage
Distributed storage systems often introduce redundancy to increase reliability. When coding is used, the repair problem arises: if a node storing encoded information fails, in orde...
Alexandros G. Dimakis, Kannan Ramchandran, Yunnan ...
CIDR
2009
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13 years 5 months ago
The Case for RodentStore: An Adaptive, Declarative Storage System
Recent excitement in the database community surrounding new applications--analytic, scientific, graph, geospatial, etc.--has led to an explosion in research on database storage sy...
Philippe Cudré-Mauroux, Eugene Wu, Samuel M...
MASCOTS
2003
13 years 6 months ago
SPEK: A Storage Performance Evaluation Kernel Module for Block Level Storage Systems
— This paper introduces a new benchmark tool, SPEK (Storage Performance Evaluation Kernel module), for evaluating the performance of block-level storage systems in the presence o...
Ming Zhang, Qing Yang, Xubin He
MASCOTS
2008
13 years 6 months ago
Sensitivity Based Power Management of Enterprise Storage Systems
Energy-efficiency is a key requirement in data centers today. Storage systems constitute a significant fraction of the energy consumed in a data center and therefore enterprise st...
Sriram Sankar, Sudhanva Gurumurthi, Mircea R. Stan
MASCOTS
2008
13 years 6 months ago
A Novel and Generic Model for Synthesizing Disk I/O Traffic Based on The Alpha-stable Process
Obtaining representative and concise I/O workloads for the purpose of projecting the performance of storage systems remains a challenge due to the complex nature of I/O behaviors....
Qiang Zou, Dan Feng, Yifeng Zhu, Hong Jiang
CODES
2008
IEEE
13 years 6 months ago
A time-predictable system initialization design for huge-capacity flash-memory storage systems
The capacity of flash-memory storage systems grows at a speed similar to many other storage systems. In order to properly manage the product cost, vendors face serious challenges ...
Chin-Hsien Wu
DSN
2004
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
A Framework for Evaluating Storage System Dependability
Designing storage systems to provide business continuity in the face of failures requires the use of various data protection techniques, such as backup, remote mirroring, point-in-...
Kimberly Keeton, Arif Merchant