The data storage needs of large high-performance and general-purpose computing environments are generally best served by distributed storage systems. Traditional solutions, exemplified by NFS, provide a simple distributed storage system model, but cannot meet the demands of high-performance computing environments where a single server may become a bottleneck, nor do they scale well due to the n...

A hybrid mobile/fixed device cloud that harnesses sensing, computing, communication, and storage capabilities of mobile and fixed devices in the field as well as those of computing and storage servers in remote datacenters is envisioned. Mobile device clouds can be harnessed to enable innovative pervasive applications that rely on real-time, in-situ processing of sensor data collected in the fi...

The technology and cost barrier of the SSD motivated many research groups and companies to merge the SSD with low cost and large capacity storage device, Hard Disk Drive (HDD). As the NAND flash memory technology is getting more advanced, price of NAND flash memory dropped dramatically. As number of bits per cell in NAND flash memory is increasing, the price of $/GByte is reduced. This trend wi...

Quantum systems are inherently dissipation-less, making them excellent candidates even for classical information processing. We propose to use an array of large-spin quantum magnets for realizing a device which has two modes of operation: memory and data-bus. While the weakly interacting low-energy levels are used as memory to store classical information (bits), the high-energy levels strongly ...

The article describes the construction of a simple new device, for the storage of live tabanids during field collections and their transportation to the laboratory, avoiding the loss of specimens.

Interrupt coalescing is a well known and proven technique for reducing CPU utilization when processing high IO rates in network and storage controllers. Virtualization introduces a layer of virtual hardware for the guest operating system, whose interrupt rate can be controlled by the hypervisor. Unfortunately, existing techniques based on high-resolution timers are not practical for virtual dev...

We present a comprehensive investigation into the complexity of a new private key storage apparatus: a novel silicon photonic physical unclonable function (PUF) based on ultrafast nonlinear optical interactions in a chaotic silicon microcavity that is both unclonable and impossible to emulate. This device provides remarkable improvements to total information content (raw cryptographic material)...

Combining resistive switching and magnetoresistance in a system exhibits great potential for application in multibit nonvolatile data storage. It is in significance and difficulty to seek a material with resistances that can be stably switched at different resistance states modulated by an electrical field and a magnetic field. In this paper, we propose a novel electrode/ZnO/ZnO-Co/electrode de...

PDF PS. [2] Device Transparency: a new model for mobile storage. Jacob Strauss, Chris Lesniewski-Laas, Justin Mazzola Paluska, Bryan Ford, Robert Morris, and M. Frans Kaashoek. In Proceedings of the SOSP Workshop on Hot Topics in Storage and File Systems (HotStorage), Big Sky, Montana, October 2009.

This paper compares two storage models for gazetteers, nameley the standard one based on numbered indexing automata associated with an auxiliary storage device against a pure finite-state model, the latter being superior in terms of space and time complexity.1