Canino, DavidEnrico Puppo and Andrea Brogni and Leila De Floriani2014-01-272014-01-272010978-3-905673-80-7http://dx.doi.org/10.2312/LocalChapterEvents/ItalChap/ItalianChapConf2010/111-116Nowadays, gigantic models can be easily produced in many applications and their dimension often exceeds the RAM size in a common workstation. Thus, using an external memory technique is mandatory in this case. In this paper, we define a dimension-independent and extensible framework, called Objects Management in Secondary Memory (OMSM), for managing huge models. The OMSM framework can be easily adapted to the users needs through dynamic plugins, providing many techniques to be integrated in a storing architecture.Categories and Subject Descriptors (according to ACM CCS): H.3.1 [Information Systems]: Information Storage and Retrieval-Content Analysis and Indexing