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...
Clusters of workstations are a popular alternative to integrated parallel systems designed and built by a vendor. Besides their huge cumulative processing power, they also provide...
—Intuitively, it seems that understanding how the performance of a system affects its users requires research in psychology and the conducting of live experiments. We demonstrate...
We observe that an effect of "disk resource sharing" of multi-copy movie traffic has great impact on the blocking performance of a video-on-demand system. This observatio...
Jun Guo, Eric Wing Ming Wong, Sammy Chan, Peter Ta...
Client-side file caching has long been recognized as a file system enhancement to reduce the amount of data transfer between application processes and I/O servers. However, cach...
Wei-keng Liao, Avery Ching, Kenin Coloma, Alok N. ...