Emerging large-scale data-storage technologies such as Storage Area Networks (SAN) and Network Attached Storage (NAS), being server-less, trade datasharing and security semantics for high throughput and availability. This paper addresses the issue of data-sharing by presenting a Reader-Writer locking mechanism that is controlled by the storage device. Shared-read and exclusive-write access to s...

The Global File System (GFS) is a prototype design for a distributed file system in which cluster nodes physically share storage devices connected via a network like Fibre Channel. Networks and network attached storage devices have advanced to a level of performance and extensibility that the once believed disadvantages of “shared disk” architectures are no longer valid. This shared storage arc...

The development and construction of a prototype device (food parcel locker), consisting small cooling freezing chambers (boxes) ensuring temperature conditions (+5 C or −18 °C), enabling food storage were carried out. innovative solutions have been introduced in the MainBox device: appropriate (materials, installation), properly functioning systems (control chillers, security, monitoring), prop...

The unit load storage assignment problem determines the assignment of a set of unit loads with known arrival and departure times to a set of unit storage locations in a warehouse. The material handling device(s) can carry at most one unit load at the time. In this research it is assumed that each of the storage locations can be accessed directly without load relocations or rearrangements and th...