While application end-point architectures have proven to be viable solutions for large-scale distributed applications such as distributed computing and file-sharing, there is lit...
Kunwadee Sripanidkulchai, Aditya Ganjam, Bruce M. ...
With the increasing number of processors in modern HPC(High Performance Computing) systems, there are two emergent problems to solve. One is scalability, the other is fault tolera...
Over the last twenty years the interfaces for accessing persistent storage within a computer system have remained essentially unchanged. Simply put, seek, read and write have de...
Xiangyong Ouyang, David W. Nellans, Robert Wipfel,...
—Creating replicas of frequently accessed data objects across a read-intensive Content Delivery Network (CDN) can result in reduced user response time. Because CDNs often operate...
Samee Ullah Khan, Anthony A. Maciejewski, Howard J...
This paper presents a theoretical and experimental study on the limitations of copy-on-write snapshots and incremental backups in terms of data recoverability. We provide mathemat...