— This work focuses on a class of distributed storage systems whose content may evolve over time. Each component or node of the storage system is mobile and the set of all nodes ...
— To share and exchange the files among Internet users, Peerto-Peer (P2P) applications build another layer of overlay networks on top of the Internet Infrastructure. In P2P fil...
Zhiyong Xu, D. Stefanescu, Honggang Zhang, Laxmi N...
Parallel file subsystems in today’s high-performance computers adopt many I/O optimization strategies that were designed for distributed systems. These strategies, for instance...
Wei-keng Liao, Kenin Coloma, Alok N. Choudhary, Le...
Many applications of parallel I/O perform non-contiguous file accesses: instead of accessing a single (large) block of data in a file, a number of (smaller) blocks of data scatt...
Inverted files are widely used to index documents in large-scale information retrieval systems. An inverted file consists of posting lists, which can be stored in either a documen...