Tight bounds for prefetching and buffer management algorithms for parallel I/O systems

IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems

Volumn 10, Issue 12, 1999, Pages 1262-1275

  Varman, Peter J ^a,b   Verma, Rakesh M ^c  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b Rice University   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUFFER MANAGEMENT ALGORITHMS; PARALLEL INPUT/OUTPUT SYSTEMS;

BUFFER STORAGE; COMPUTER SYSTEMS PROGRAMMING; DATA ACQUISITION; DECISION THEORY; MAGNETIC DISK STORAGE; PARALLEL ALGORITHMS; RESPONSE TIME (COMPUTER SYSTEMS); STORAGE ALLOCATION (COMPUTER);

PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 0033317118     PISSN: 10459219     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/71.819948     Document Type: Article

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