In this paper, we discuss some of the lessons that we have learned working with the Hadoop and Sector/Sphere systems. Both of these systems are cloud-based systems designed to sup...
Flash memory is the largest change to storage in recent history. To date, most research has focused on integrating flash as persistent storage in file systems, with little emphasi...
As our society becomes more information-driven, we have begun to amass data at an astounding and accelerating rate. At the same time, power concerns have made it difficult to brin...
Adrian M. Caulfield, Laura M. Grupp, Steven Swanso...
The major chip manufacturers have all introduced chip multiprocessing (CMP) and simultaneous multithreading (SMT) technology into their processing units. As a result, even low-end...
An error that occurs in a microkernel operating system service can potentially result in state corruption and service failure. A simple restart of the failed service is not always...
Francis M. David, Ellick Chan, Jeffrey C. Carlyle,...