Modern desktop grid environments and shared computing platforms have popularized the use of contributory resources, such as desktop computers, as computing substrates for a variet...
Data Grids have been adopted as the next-generation platform by many scientific communities that need to share, access, transport, process and manage large data collections distri...
Modern storage systems use thousands of inexpensive disks to meet the storage requirement of applications. To enhance the data availability, some form of redundancy is used. For e...
Liping Xiang, Yinlong Xu, John C. S. Lui, Qian Cha...
In distributed storage systems, erasure codes represent an attractive solution to add redundancy to stored data while limiting the storage overhead. They are able to provide the s...
As the disks typically found in personal computers grow larger, protecting data by replicating it on a collection of “peer” systems rather than on dedicated high performance s...
Dmitry Brodsky, Michael J. Feeley, Norman C. Hutch...