Distributed file organization with scalable cost/performance

Scalable Distributed Register File

In microarchitectural design, conceptual simplicity does not always lead to reduced technological complexity. VLSI design offers several standard structures which get very inefficient when they are scaled up. For instance, the superscalar OOO processing model is conceptually simple – with the controlflow oriented front-end and the dataflow oriented backend – but simply scaling the structures in...

A scalable organization for distributed directories

Although directory-based cache-coherence protocols are the best choice when designing chip multiprocessors with tens of cores on-chip, the memory overhead introduced by the directory structure may not scale gracefully with the number of cores. Many approaches aimed at improving the scalability of directories have been proposed. However, they do not bring perfect scalability and usually reduce t...

zFS - A Scalable Distributed File System Using Object Disks

zFS is a research project aimed at building a decentralized file system that distributes all aspects of file and storage management over a set of cooperating machines interconnected by a high-speed network. zFS is designed to be a file system that scales from a few networked computers to several thousand machines and to be built from commodity off-the-shelf components. The two most prominent fe...

A Scalable High-Bandwidth Distributed File System for Multimedia Applications

Scalable Indexing and Searching on Distributed File Systems

iii ACKNOWLEDGEMENT I want to thank God for making this possible, for seeing me through to this stage of my life and the opportunity to successfully complete my thesis in graduate school. I want to thank my advisor, Dr. Ioan Raicu for the opportunity to be a member of his lab and work under him as my thesis advisor. I want to thank my committee members, Dr. Boris Glavic and Dr. Kevin Jin for ta...