— The tolerable packet-loss ratio of an Internet Protocol (IP) based wireless networks varies according to the specific services considered. File transfer for example must be er...
In this paper, we propose a novel Single I/O Space architecture for achieving a Single System Image (SSI) at the I/O subsystem level. This is very much desired in a scalable clust...
Hadoop is a reference software framework supporting the Map/Reduce programming model. It relies on the Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS) as its primary storage system. Althoug...
This paper presents the design and implementation of an asynchronous data-staging strategy for file accesses based on ROMIO, the most popular MPI-IO distribution, and ZeptoOS, an ...
The file is a well-understood and very simple abstraction, which has been successfully used in both centralized and distributed systems. However, files are not expressive enough t...