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HPDC
1998
IEEE
15 years 10 months ago
Distant I/O: One-Sided Access to Secondary Storage on Remote Processors
We propose a new parallel, noncollective I/O strategy called Distant I/O that targets clustered computer systems in which disks are attached to compute nodes. Distant I/O allows o...
Jarek Nieplocha, Ian T. Foster, Holger Dachsel
USENIX
2003
15 years 7 months ago
The CryptoGraphic Disk Driver
We present the design and implementation of CGD, the CryptoGraphic Disk driver. CGD is a pseudo-device driver that sits below the buffer cache, and provides an encrypted view of a...
Roland C. Dowdeswell, John Ioannidis
SIGIR
2012
ACM
13 years 8 months ago
Boosting multi-kernel locality-sensitive hashing for scalable image retrieval
Similarity search is a key challenge for multimedia retrieval applications where data are usually represented in high-dimensional space. Among various algorithms proposed for simi...
Hao Xia, Pengcheng Wu, Steven C. H. Hoi, Rong Jin
ASPLOS
2004
ACM
15 years 11 months ago
Deconstructing storage arrays
We introduce Shear, a user-level software tool that characterizes RAID storage arrays. Shear employs a set of controlled algorithms combined with statistical techniques to automat...
Timothy E. Denehy, John Bent, Florentina I. Popovi...
VLDB
2004
ACM
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15 years 11 months ago
Clotho: Decoupling memory page layout from storage organization
As database application performance depends on the utilization of the memory hierarchy, smart data placement plays a central role in increasing locality and in improving memory ut...
Minglong Shao, Jiri Schindler, Steven W. Schlosser...