@InProceedings{ali:enhancing,
  author = {Zeyad Ali and Qutaibah Malluhi},
  title = {Enhancing data-intensive applications performance by tuning the
  distributed storage policies},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the International Conference on Parallel and
  Distributed Processing Techniques and Applications, PDPTA'04},
  year = {2004},
  month = {June},
  volume = {3},
  pages = {1515--1522},
  copyright = {(c)2005 Elsevier Engineering Information, Inc.},
  address = {Las Vegas, NV},
  keywords = {application-specific storage policies, pario-app, DTViewer,
  access patterns, data layout, pario-bib},
  abstract = {This paper describes the performance improvements achieved by a
  data-intensive application by controlling the storage policies and algorithms
  of a distributed storage system. The Network Storage Manager (NSM) is a mass
  distributed storage framework with a unique architecture that provides
  applications with the high-performance features they need. It also provides
  the standard most commonly used implementation for storage policies.
  Distributed Terrain Viewer (DTViewer) is an application that utilizes NSM
  architecture and for efficient and reliable data delivery. Moreover, it
  exploits NSM controllable architecture by plugging-in its
  application-specific optimized implementations. DTViewer overrides the
  default NSM policies that do not understand its sophisticated access
  patterns, partitioning, and storage layout requirements. Experimental results
  have show significant improvement achieved when the application-tailored
  implementation are used. Such speedups are not achievable on storage systems
  with no application control such as the Parallel Virtual File System PVFS.
  (44 Refs.)}
}