— Checkpointing is an indispensable technique to provide fault tolerance for long-running high-throughput applications like those running on desktop grids. This paper argues that...
Samer Al-Kiswany, Matei Ripeanu, Sudharshan S. Vaz...
This paper presents the design, implementation, and evaluation of BORG, a self-optimizing storage system that performs automatic block reorganization based on the observed I/O wor...
Medha Bhadkamkar, Jorge Guerra, Luis Useche, Sam B...
Geographical Information Systems (GIS) involve the manipulation of large spatial data sets, and the performance of these systems is often determined by how these data sets are orga...
Akhil Kumar, Waleed A. Muhanna, Raymond A. Patters...
This paper proposes STORAGEDB: a paradigm for implementing storage virtualation using databases. It describes details for storing the logical-to-physical mapping information as ta...
Lin Qiao, Balakrishna R. Iyer, Divyakant Agrawal, ...
We present the Deep Store archival storage architecture, a large-scale storage system that stores immutable data efficiently and reliably for long periods of time. Archived data i...
Lawrence You, Kristal T. Pollack, Darrell D. E. Lo...