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We would like to extend our warmest welcome to all attendees to the Second International Workshop on Storage Network Architecture and Parallel I/Os (SNAPI'04). In particular, we would like to thank the authors for submitting their research work to the workshop and to share their ideas and technical contributions with us and the I/O research community.Storage systems have evolved over five decades that have witnessed dramatic technological advances, changes in customer requirements, and emerging engineering challenges. In this workshop, 9 high-quality papers discuss some of the major issues facing the storage industry today, and describe a range of solutions for dealing with these issues. Ajay Gulati and Peter Varman introduce a model of disk bandwidth allocation, and provide efficient scheduling algorithms to assign the bandwidth among the concurrent applications with QoS constraints. Andre Brinkmann et al. use a similar economical motivation that inspired the original RAID in 1988 to propose to virtualize multiple RAIDs with small capacity into a large one. Jose Luis Gonzalez et al. propose an algorithm to add N disks to a RAID 5 while it continues running. Fujita Tomonori and Ogawara Masanori examine the current complicated implementations of iSCSI protocols and design a new simple one without sacrificing the efficiency. Jianqi Tang et al. provide a new solution for out-of-core applications and extend the problem size so that a cluster can solve. Peter Bleckmann et al. design an intermediate iSCSI-enabled device that deploys prefetching strategies in combination with redundant disks to reduce the I/O latency in thewide area network. Yifeng Zhu overviews the new and promising storage technology MEMS and presents its potential research issues for computer scientists and engineers. Energy is one of the most critical issues for storage systems. Dong Li et al. exploit file access locality to migrate files between a conventional file system and a customerized one to save energy. Peng Gu et al. propose a novel solution to boost intra-cluster communication performance by innovatively developing a RDMA-enabled collaborative I/O cache.

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Suitable for specialists in materials science and applied mechanics, this book discusses high performance structures using macro-micro theories and a micro mechanics approach.

Matter. --- Inhomogeneous materials. --- Heterogeneous materials --- Inhomogeneous media --- Media, Inhomogeneous --- Materials --- Matter --- Atoms --- Dynamics --- Gravitation --- Physics --- Substance (Philosophy)

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Fluid mechanics --- Electromagnetism. Ferromagnetism --- Materials sciences --- Engineering sciences. Technology --- materiaalkennis --- analyse (wiskunde) --- ingenieurswetenschappen --- mechanica --- magnetisme

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Fluid mechanics --- Electromagnetism. Ferromagnetism --- Materials sciences --- Engineering sciences. Technology --- materiaalkennis --- analyse (wiskunde) --- ingenieurswetenschappen --- mechanica --- magnetisme

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The ocean is the cradle of life and is rich in natural resources. With the worldwide boom in exploration and application of ocean resources, a dramatically increasing amount of coastal engineering and offshore engineering facilities have been constructed in the last few decades. The rapid development of human economic activities and the global climate change have significant impacts on the marine environment, resulting in frequent geological disasters. Under this circumstance, there is an urgent demand for a platform for scientists and engineers to share their state-of-art research outcomes in the field of Marine Engineering Geology. This book is a collection of a series of articles from the 2nd International Symposium of Marine Engineering Geology (ISMEG 2019), presenting some of the recent efforts made towards marine engineering geology and geotechnics, including theoretical advances, laboratory and field testing, design methods, and the potential for further development of these disciplines.

Technology: general issues --- marine soft soil --- double-layer foundation --- consolidation theory --- drainage boundary --- spudcan --- skirted footing --- footprint --- jack-up --- clay --- large deformation analysis --- coral sands --- porous media --- model test --- dispersion --- mechanical dispersion --- molecular diffusion --- soft clay --- cyclic loads --- residual pore pressure --- suction anchor --- wave --- seafloor instability --- pore pressure --- slide surface --- gas distribution --- meshfree method --- Varans --- Biot’s “u − p” approximation --- wave-current induced seabed response --- immersed tunnel --- sediment liquefaction --- heavy metal --- migration --- interior of sediment --- the subaqueous Yellow River Delta --- ocean waves --- double-frequency microseisms --- continental margin --- continental slope --- coral sand --- Fujian sand --- shaking table test --- dynamic response --- pile group --- marine engineering --- seismic liquefaction --- novel liquefaction-resistant structures --- mitigation strategies --- sand wave --- pressure sensing technique --- physical model test --- field application --- wingsail --- aerodynamics --- numerical simulation --- marine silty sand --- small-strain stiffness --- Hardin model --- binary packing model --- dredging and reclamation --- constitutive relationship --- centrifugal experiment --- void ratio–effective stress --- void ratio–permeability coefficient --- n/a --- Biot's "u − p" approximation --- void ratio-effective stress --- void ratio-permeability coefficient