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2011
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Making the Common Case the Only Case with Anticipatory Memory Allocation
We present Anticipatory Memory Allocation (AMA), a new method to build kernel code that is robust to memoryallocation failures. AMA avoids the usual difficulties in handling allo...
Swaminathan Sundararaman, Yupu Zhang, Sriram Subra...
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2011
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Capo: Recapitulating Storage for Virtual Desktops
Shared storage underlies most enterprise VM deployments because it is an established technology that administrators are familiar with and because it good job of protecting data. H...
Mohammad Shamma, Dutch T. Meyer, Jake Wires, Maria...
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2011
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Tradeoffs in Scalable Data Routing for Deduplication Clusters
As data have been growing rapidly in data centers, deduplication storage systems continuously face challenges in providing the corresponding throughputs and capacities necessary t...
Wei Dong, Fred Douglis, Kai Li, R. Hugo Patterson,...
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2011
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FAST: Quick Application Launch on Solid-State Drives
Application launch performance is of great importance to system platform developers and vendors as it greatly affects the degree of users’ satisfaction. The single most effectiv...
Yongsoo Joo, Junhee Ryu, Sangsoo Park, Kang G. Shi...
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2011
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Leveraging Value Locality in Optimizing NAND Flash-based SSDs
: NAND flash-based solid-state drives (SSDs) are increasingly being deployed in storage systems at different levels such as buffer-caches and even secondary storage. However, the ...
Aayush Gupta, Raghav Pisolkar, Bhuvan Urgaonkar, A...
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2011
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Reliably Erasing Data from Flash-Based Solid State Drives
Reliably erasing data from storage media (sanitizing the media) is a critical component of secure data management. While sanitizing entire disks and individual files is well-unde...
Michael Yung Chung Wei, Laura M. Grupp, Frederick ...
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2011
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Exploiting Half-Wits: Smarter Storage for Low-Power Devices
This work analyzes the stochastic behavior of writing to embedded flash memory at voltages lower than recommended by a microcontroller’s specifications to reduce energy consum...
Mastooreh Salajegheh, Yue Wang, Kevin Fu, Anxiao J...
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2011
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Consistent and Durable Data Structures for Non-Volatile Byte-Addressable Memory
The predicted shift to non-volatile, byte-addressable memory (e.g., Phase Change Memory and Memristor), the growth of “big data”, and the subsequent emergence of frameworks su...
Shivaram Venkataraman, Niraj Tolia, Parthasarathy ...
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2011
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CAFTL: A Content-Aware Flash Translation Layer Enhancing the Lifespan of Flash Memory based Solid State Drives
Although Flash Memory based Solid State Drive (SSD) exhibits high performance and low power consumption, a critical concern is its limited lifespan along with the associated relia...
Feng Chen, Tian Luo, Xiaodong Zhang
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2011
14 years 7 months ago
A Study of Practical Deduplication
We collected file system content data from 857 desktop computers at Microsoft over a span of 4 weeks. We analyzed the data to determine the relative efficacy of data deduplication...
Dutch T. Meyer, William J. Bolosky