OS streaming deployment

Conference Proceedings of the IEEE International Performance, Computing, and Communications Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 169-179

  Clerc, David ^a   Garcés Erice, Luis ^a   Rooney, Sean ^a  

^a IBM RESEARCH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

I/O PERFORMANCE; NETWORK DEPLOYMENT; OPERATING SYSTEMS;

DISKS (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS);

COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS;

EID: 79551570295     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/PCCC.2010.5682313     Document Type: Conference Paper

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