Storage System Support for Continuous-Media Applications, Part 1: Requirements and Single-Disk Issues

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February 2004 (Vol. 5, No. 2)
Storage System Support for Continuous-Media Applications, Part 1: Requirements and Single-Disk Issues
Pål Halvorsen, University of Oslo
Carsten Griwodz, University of Oslo
Vera Goebel, University of Oslo
Ketil Lund, University of Oslo
Thomas Plagemann, University of Oslo
Jonathan Walpole, Oregon Health and Science University

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To meet multimedia servers' increasing performance and scalability requirements, researchers must design multimedia storage system components that adapt to various workloads and requirements. They must also develop strategies for combining components into a single high-performance system.
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Index Terms- data-intensive computing, storage, continuous media, streaming media, multiple disks, memory, integration Citation: Pål Halvorsen, Carsten Griwodz, Vera Goebel, Ketil Lund, Thomas Plagemann, Jonathan Walpole, "Storage System Support for Continuous-Media Applications, Part 1: Requirements and Single-Disk Issues," IEEE Distributed Systems Online, vol. 5, no. 2, Feb., 2004

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