Editorial

Guest Editor's Introduction: P2S2: SI 2016

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In “Client-side Straggler-Aware I/O Scheduler for Object-based Parallel File Systems”, Tavakoli et al. present that Object-based parallel file systems have emerged as promising storage solutions for high-performance computing (HPC) systems. Despite the fact that object storage provides a flexible interface, scheduling highly concurrent I/O requests that access to a large number of objects still remains as a challenging problem, especially in the case when stragglers (storage servers that are