Cloud computing has attracted a great deal of attention in both academia and industry. We envision the provision of differentiated services as being one of the key components to th...
Building reliable data storage from unreliable components presents many challenges and is of particular interest for peer-to-peer storage systems. Recent work has examined the tra...
Data-intensive applications often require exploratory analysis of large datasets. If analysis is performed on distributed resources, data locality can be crucial to high throughpu...
Ioan Raicu, Yong Zhao, Ian T. Foster, Alexander S....
Mariner is an iSCSI-based storage system that is de signed to provide comprehensive data protection on com modity ATA disk and Gigabit Ethernet technologies while offering the...
Abstract—In distributed storage systems built using commodity hardware, it is necessary to store multiple replicas of every data chunk in order to ensure system reliability. In s...