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Web caching is essential for the World Wide Web, saving processing power, bandwidth, and reducing latency. Many proxy caching solutions focus on buffering data from the main server, neglecting cacheable information meant for server writes.…
Discrete GPU accelerators, while providing massive computing power for supercomputers and data centers, have their separate memory domain. Explicit memory management across device and host domains in programming is tedious and error-prone.…
In contrast to monolithic devices, modular, networked quantum architectures are based on interconnecting smaller quantum hardware nodes using quantum communication links, and offer a promising approach to scalability. Virtual distillation…
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To save cost, recently more and more users choose to provision virtual machine resources in cluster systems, especially in data centres. Maintaining a consistent member view is the foundation of reliable cluster managements, and it also…
The storage stack in the traditional operating system is primarily optimized towards improving the CPU utilization and hiding the long I/O latency imposed by the slow I/O devices such as hard disk drivers (HDDs). However, the emerging…
We propose NVLog, an NVM-based write-ahead log for disk file systems, designed to transparently harness the high performance of NVM within the legacy storage stack. NVLog provides on-demand byte-granularity sync absorption, reserving the…
Even though virtualization provides a lot of advantages in cloud computing, it does not provide effective performance isolation between the virtualization machines. In other words, the performance may get affected due the interferences…
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Container technique is gaining increasing attention in recent years and has become an alternative to traditional virtual machines. Some of the primary motivations for the enterprise to adopt the container technology include its convenience…
Understanding the performance profiles of storage devices and how best to utilize them has always been non-trivial due to factors such as seek times, caching, scheduling, concurrent access, flash wear-out, and garbage collection. However,…