The multi-level storage architecture has been widely adopted in servers and data centers. However, while prefetching has been shown as a crucial technique to exploit the sequentia...
Several recent studies have pointed out that file I/Os can be a major performance bottleneck for some large Web servers. Large I/O buffer caches often do not work effectively for ...
Online photo sharing systems, such as Flickr and Picasa, provide a valuable source of human-annotated photos. Textual annotations are used not only to describe the visual content ...
In the last few years NAND flash storage has become more and more popular as price per GB and capacity both improve at exponential rates. Flash memory offers significant bene...
Radu Stoica, Manos Athanassoulis, Ryan Johnson, An...
Access latency to secondary storage devices is frequently a limiting factor in computer system performance. New storage technologies promise to provide greater storage densities a...
Bo Hong, Scott A. Brandt, Darrell D. E. Long, Etha...