Applications with Constrained Latency Storage Access (CLSA) are those that have large storage needs and hard constraints on the amount of latency they can tolerate. Such applications present a problem when the storage technology that is cost effective and large enough cannot meet their latency constraints for demand fetching. Examples are found in the developing field of multimedia computing an...

This paper proposes a design procedure that exploits storage devices with diierent cost/bandwidth and cost/capacity ratios to build a hierarchical storage system for video-on-demand with minimum cost. The storage system is assumed to have two levels of hierarchy. The level-1 storage devices feature a low cost/bandwidth ratio and a high cost/capacity ratio. On the other hand, the level-2 storage...

Identifying some pointers as invisible threads, for the purposes of storage management, is a generalization from several widely used programming conventions, like threaded trees. The necessary invariant is that nodes that are accessible (without threads) emit threads only to other accessible nodes. Dynamic tagging or static typing of threads ameliorates storage recycling both in functional and ...

Effective high-level data management is becoming an important issue with more and more scientific applications manipulating huge amounts of secondary-storage and tertiary-storage data using parallel processors. A major problem facing the current solutions to this data management problem is that these solutions either require a deep understanding of specific data storage architectures and file l...

EEcient storage management of objects is an important part of any persistent object system. Storage management algorithms, such as those for clustering, caching, and garbage collection, are often complex, since they must simultaneously satisfy a number of constraints, including low CPU overhead, minimum space usage, and low latency. We have designed a simulation system that can be used to evalu...

Heterogeneous devices have been adopted widely in mobile storage systems because a combination of such devices can supply a synergistically useful storage solution by taking advantage of each device. In heterogeneous storage systems there have been several researches for enhancing I/O performance by devising proper buffer cache management algorithms. This paper presents a novel device-aware buf...

Effective high-level data management is becoming an important issue with more and more scientific applications manipulating huge amounts of secondary-storage and tertiary-storage data using parallel processors. A major problem facing the current solutions to this data management problem is that these solutions either require a deep understanding of specific data storage architectures and file l...

Red blood cells (RBCs) undergo biochemical and structural changes during storage, commonly referred to as the "storage lesion." Evidence suggests that the longer the RBC product is stored, the less effective is the transfused blood. Many studies linking morbidity to transfusion have not considered duration of RBC storage as a variable that may modulate the effect. In addition, the effects of su...

{Multimedia computing requires support for heterogeneous data types with differing storage, communication, and delivery requirements. Continuous media data types such as audio and video impose delivery requirements that are not satissed by conventional physical storage organizations. In this paper we describe a physical organization for multi-media data based on the need to support the delivery...