The high-performance computing I/O stack has been complex due to multiple software
layers, the inter-dependencies among these layers, and the different performance tuning …

With the explosive growth of genomic information, the searching of sequence databases has
emerged as one of the most computation and data-intensive scientific applications. Our …

In the life sciences, genomic databases for sequence search have been growing
exponentially in size. As a result, faster sequence-search algorithms to search these …

I/O forwarding is a well-established and widely-adopted technique in HPC to reduce
contention in the access to storage servers and transparently improve I/O performance …

Bioinformatics databases used for sequence comparison and sequence alignment are
growing exponentially. This has popularized programs that carry out database searches …

Many parallel scientific applications use high-level I/O APIs that offer atomic I/O capabilities.
Atomic I/O in current parallel file systems is often slow when multiple processes …

Cache prefetching technique can improve the hit ratio and expedite users visiting speed.
After analyzed the recommend system in e-business, this paper studied the characteristics …

Many scientific applications require high-performance concurrent I/O accesses to a file by
multiple processes. Those applications rely indirectly on atomic I/O capabilities in order to …

The problem of loss less joint source-channel coding for the two-way relay network with an
orthogonal multiple access channel is studied. Necessary and sufficient conditions for …

Disk subsystem is known to be a major contributor to the overall power budget of large-scale
parallel systems. Most scientific applications today rely heavily on disk I/O for out-of-core …