@InProceedings{srinilta:strategies,
  author = {Chutimet Srinilta and Divyesh Jadav and Alok Choudhary},
  title = {Design and Evaluation of Data Storage and Retrieval Strategies in a
  Distributed Memory Continuous Media Server},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the Eleventh International Parallel Processing
  Symposium},
  year = {1997},
  month = {April},
  pages = {360--367},
  URL = {http://www.ece.nwu.edu/~csrinilt/mm/pub/ipps97.ps},
  keywords = {threads, parallel I/O, pario-bib},
  abstract = {High performance servers and high-speed networks will form the
  backbone of the infra-structure required for distributed multimedia
  information systems. Given that the goal of such a server is to support
  hundreds of interactive data streams simultaneously, various tradeoffs are
  possible with respect to the storage of data on secondary memory, and its
  retrieval therefrom. In this paper we identify and evaluate these tradeoffs.
  We evaluate the effect of varying the stripe factor and also the performance
  of batched retrieval of disk--resident data. We develop a methodology to
  predict the stream capacity of such a server. The evaluation is done for both
  uniform and skewed access patterns. Experimental results on the Intel Paragon
  computer are presented.}
}