Abstract: It has been recently discovered that heavy-tailed file completion time can result from protocol interaction even when file sizes are light-tailed. A key to this phenomenon is the RESTART ...

Abstract: Parallel file systems have been broadly deployed in large scale data centers, supporting a wide range of applications across a variety of industries. Unfortunately, most parallel file ...

You may know that file fragmentation affects performance of a computer system. But did you know how much and how closely it affects every user on a system? Standard fare operations such as word ...

Microsoft Windows and other computer operating systems manage hard drive space by dividing it into equally-sized units called clusters or blocks. Over time, however, a drive's block structure becomes ...

People who have had bad experiences on Windows disks that performed poorly after they had become very fragmented often wonder if they need to apply some kind of periodic analysis and defragmentation ...

This project explores the use of Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) to enhance transparency and trust in digital forensics—specifically in the task of classifying file fragments during image ...

Will try tonight. Sounds like a great idea. Come to think of it, why do we get fragmentation if you install Windows on a clean disk? Next time you do, go look at them gaps..

While it’s true that uninterrupted file access is important no matter the work being done, it’s especially important when it comes to music editing. A large part of the creative process that goes into ...