Large-scale web and text retrieval systems deal with amounts of data that greatly exceed the capacity of any single machine. To handle the necessary data volumes and query through...
—It has been widely acknowledged that online storage systems within the “cloud” of the Internet provide services of a substantial value to end users who wish to share files ...
Ye Sun, Fangming Liu, Bo Li, Baochun Li, Xinyan Zh...
HoTMaN (HoT-standby MaNager) is a joint research and development project between MySpace and USC Database Laboratory to design and develop a tool to ensure a 24x7 up-time and ease...
Shahram Ghandeharizadeh, Andrew Goodney, Chetan Sh...
In distributed computing systems, it is unwise to move data to the point of program code, but instead process data at the point of storage. This concept is even more appropriate t...
Modern servers access large volumes of data while running commercial workloads. The data is typically spread among several storage devices (e.g. disks). Carefully placing the data...