Title :
A flexible I/O framework for parallel and distributed systems
Author :
Matthijs, Frank ; Berbers, Yolande ; Verbaeten, Pierre
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci., Katholieke Univ., Leuven, Belgium
Abstract :
We propose a framework for I/O in parallel and distributed systems. The framework is highly customizable and extendible, and enables programmers to offer high level objects in their applications, without requiring them to struggle with the low level and sometimes complex details of high performance distributed I/O. Also, the framework exploits application specific information to improve I/O performance by allowing specialized programmers to customize the framework. Internally, we use indirection and granularity control to support migration, dynamic load balancing, fault tolerance, etc. for objects of the I/O system, including those representing application data
Keywords :
distributed processing; input-output programs; object-oriented methods; object-oriented programming; parallel programming; resource allocation; software fault tolerance; I/O performance; application data; application specific information; distributed systems; dynamic load balancing; fault tolerance; flexible I/O framework; granularity control; high level objects; indirection; migration; parallel systems; specialized programmers; Computer science; Control systems; Data visualization; Fault tolerant systems; Games; High level languages; Load management; Memory; Programming profession; Video on demand;
Conference_Titel :
Object-Orientation in Operating Systems, 1995., Fourth International Workshop on
Conference_Location :
Lund
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-7115-7
DOI :
10.1109/IWOOS.1995.470556
