Decentralized, cooperative and large-scale distributed storage systems that consist of a cluster of storage nodes attached with local disks can deliver high resource utilization, high availability and easy scalability. This paper describes the design and prototype implementation of a novel Cluster-Aware Cache (CAC) algorithm that shares memories between nodes in cluster to construct an efficien...

Application scalability is a significant issue in modern e-commerce systems. As an e-commerce business grows the load on the server system increases to the point where the current hardware is unable to service the load without significant delays or errors. As the business activity increases the traditional route is to transfer the application to more powerful, multiprocessor hardware as well as...

Video servers are essential in Video-on-Demand and other multimedia applications. In this paper, we present our high-performance clustered CBR video server, Odyssey. Odyssey is a server connecting PCs with switched Ethernet. It provides efficient support for normal play and interactive browsing functions such as fast-forward and fast-backward. We designed a set of algorithms for scheduling, syn...

For cluster video servers, it is very important to design a good distributed storage system with high performance. One of the important issues in designing a good distributed storage system is how to store multimedia data on many storage nodes. This issue includes two topics: the scheme of splitting an entire file into many clips, and the storage of these clips on many nodes. We have designed a...

The exponential growth of the Internet, cou led with the increasing populari of dynamically generated content on the WorlJWide Web, has created the nee2 for more and faster Web servers capable of serving the over 100 million Internet users. Server clustering has emerged as a promising technique to build scalable Web servers. In this article we examine the seminal work, early products, and a sam...