A variety of performance-enhancing techniques, such as striping, mirroring, and rotational data replication, exist in the disk array literature. Given a fixed budget of disks, one...
Xiang Yu, Benjamin Gum, Yuqun Chen, Randolph Y. Wa...
This paper proposes a new parallel execution model where programmers augment a sequential program with pieces of code called serializers that dynamically map computational operati...
Matthew D. Allen, Srinath Sridharan, Gurindar S. S...
Modern computer systems have been built around the assumption that persistent storage is accessed via a slow, block-based interface. However, new byte-addressable, persistent memo...
Jeremy Condit, Edmund B. Nightingale, Christopher ...
In this paper we present the design, implementation and evaluation of a runtime system based on collective I/O techniques for irregular applications. We present two models, namely...
Distributed multimedia documents systems, distributed video servers are examples of multimedia presentations involving collaboration among multiple information sources. In such ap...