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Greetings from a Filesystem User
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Flash Disk Opportunity for Server Applications
Future flash-based disks could provide breakthroughs in IOPS, power, reliability, and volumetric capacity when compared with conventional disks. NAND flash densities have been doubling each year since 1996. Samsung announced that its 32-gigabit NAND flash chips would be available in 2007. This is consistent with Chang-gyu Hwang's flash memory growth model1 that NAND flash densities will double each year until 2010. Hwang recently extended that 2003 prediction to 2012, suggesting 64 times the current density250 GB per chip. This is hard to credit, but Hwang and Samsung have delivered 16 times since his 2003 article when 2-GB chips were just emerging. So, we should be prepared for the day when a flash drive is a terabyte(!). As Hwang points out in his article, mobile and consumer applications, rather than the PC ecosystem, are pushing this technology.
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Fault Tolerance in Tandem Systems
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Parallel database systems: the future of database processing or a passing fad?
The concept of parallel database machines consisting of exotic hardware has been replaced by a fairly conventional shared-nothing hardware base along with a highly parallel dataflow software architecture. Such a design provides speedup and scaleup in processing relational database queries. This paper reviews the techniques used by such systems, and surveys current commercial and research systems.
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Benchmark Handbook: For Database and Transaction Processing Systems
A practical guide that offers the reader a comprehensive view of benchmarking for modern transaction processing and database systems. Much of the information is available for the first time. The handbook provides the tools to evaluate different systems, different software products on a single machine, and different machines within a single product family.
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Evolution of Data Management
Society has made great strides in capturing, storing, managing, analyzing, and visualizing data. These tasks are generically called data management, and this article sketches its evolution through ...
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Increasing the Effectiveness of OS Research
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Triumphs, Sins, and Challenges of Database Benchmarking
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Mobile technologies for the world's children
In this panel, academic, non-profit, and industry professionals will discuss their global perspectives on mobile technologies for the world's children. Panelists will explore such issues concerning children's access to mobile devices, the decreasing age that children have access to these technologies, mobile innovations for learning, and challenges/opportunities in diverse countries. This interactive session will begin with each panelist giving a short summary of their work-to-date with children and various mobile applications. Then the panelists will be asked questions by children from different countries via pre-recorded video. Audience members will be invited to offer their thoughts and comments as well as the panelists during the video question period. Audience members will also be able to ask further questions throughout the panel discussion.
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Why Do Computers Stop and What Can Be Done About It?
An analysis of the failure statistics of a commercially available fault-tolerant system shows that administration and software are the major contributors to failure. Various approaches to software fault-tolerance are then discussed -- notably process-pairs, transactions and reliable storage. It is pointed out that faults in production software are often soft (transient) and that a transaction mechanism combined with persistent processpairs provides fault-tolerant execution -- the key to software fault-tolerance.
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Why do Computer Stop and What Can be About it?