Optimizing the distribution of large data sets in theory and practice

Annotation: [rauch] The problem of installing multiple operating systems on our 128-node cluster motivated us to do this study on the distribution of large data sets (basically hard-disk partitions).

BibTeX entry:

@article{rauch02optimizing,
   author = {Felix Rauch and Christian Kurmann and Thomas M. Stricker},
   title = {Optimizing the distribution of large data sets in theory and
	practice},
   journal = {Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience},
   volume = {14},
   number = {3},
   pages = {165--181},
   publisher = {John Wiley & Sons, Ltd},
   month = apr,
   year = {2002},
   url = {http://www.cs.inf.ethz.ch/CoPs/ccpe2002/ccpe2002.pdf}
}