Christine Cheng
(Institute for Mathematics and its Applications, |
With improvements in computer processing speed and storage capabilities,
disk I/O (input/output) has become the bottleneck for many modern data-intensive
applications. As such, the use of multi-disk systems together with
declustering schemes has been suggested. Declustering schemes allocate
data blocks among multiple disks to enable parallel retrieval.
Given a declustering scheme D, its response time with respect to a query Q, rt(Q), is defined to be the maximum number of disk blocks of the query stored by the scheme in any one of the disks. If |Q| is the number of tiles in Q and M is the number of disks then rt(Q) is at least |Q|/M. One way to evaluate the performance of D with respect to range queries is to measure its additive error - the maximum difference between rt(Q) and |Q|/M over all range queries Q. In this talk, I will present two declustering schemes for uniform
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