World-Wide Web proxies are being increasingly used to provide Internet access to users behind a firewall and to reduce wide-area network traffic. Recent results suggest that disk I/O is increasingly becoming the limiting factor for the performance of web proxies. In this paper we study the overheads associated with disk I/O for web proxies, and propose secondary storage management alternatives ...

Personal electronic devices that include a large amount of storage are increasingly common. Already, many households use multiple mobile phones, digital cameras, MP3 players and gaming devices, in addition to desktop and notebook computers. Today, users must individually manage these devices to ensure the durability and availability of the data they store. Ensuring that data is durable, or regu...

This note describes first ideas to archive event data on mass storage media. Some crucial items still need detailed discussions with the DESY Hamburg computer center and with the HERA-B collaborations. Suggestions and comments are welcome.

The past decade has witnessed a proliferation of repositories whose workload consists of queries that retrieve information These repositories provide on line access to vast amount of data and serve as an integral component of many applications e g library information systems scienti c applications and the entertainment industry Their storage subsystems are expected to be hierarchical consisting...

The efficiency of large-scale applications is strongly dependent on good data management techniques. In this paper, we claim that the ability to specify data requirements in a time-varying manner facilitates data management and improves application efficiency. This is because requirements such as availability, bandwidth and latency can vary significantly with time. Consequently, the storage sys...

We present a transparent CIM-to-JMX gateway for combining complementary advantages of two partly competing management technologies, the Common Information Model (CIM) and and Java Management Extensions (JMX), namely a rich data model and straightforward language binding. We include overviews of both technologies and discuss how this combination in particular enables quick prototyping of CIM pro...

Grid computing is being used in various applications. Many grid applications such as weather forecasting, astrophysics deal with large amounts of data. Data intensive applications involve a high degree of data access locality. In Grid computing environments data storage management on large scale is one of the most challenging issues. Dedicated servers are used for data storage in traditional ap...

1998 CR Categories: D.1.5 [Programming Techniques] Object-oriented Programming; D.2.2 [Software Engineering] Design Tools and Techniquesobject-oriented design methods; D.2.3 [Software Engineering] Coding Tools and Techniquesobject-oriented programming; D.3.3 [Software Engineering] Language Constructs and Featuresclasses and objects, dynamic storage management; D.4 [Operating Systems] Storage...

6LS is a multi-purpose potato variety released in 2006 by the USDA-ARS and the agricultural experiment stations of Idaho, Oregon, and Washington. This variety is midto late maturing, and produces high yields of oblong, medium-russeted tubers with high specific gravity. It is resistant to sugar ends, tuber malformations, and most external and internal defects. It possesses a high level of PVYo a...