PIOUS: a scalable parallel I/O system for distributed computing environments

Author

Moyer, Steven A. ; Sunderam, V.S.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Math. & Comput. Sci., Emory Univ., Atlanta, GA, USA

fYear

1994

fDate

23-25 May 1994

Firstpage

71

Lastpage

78

Abstract

PIOUS is a parallel file system architecture that provides cost-effective, scalable bandwidth in a network computing environment. PIOUS employs data declustering, to exploit the combined file I/O and buffer cache capacities of networked computing resources, and transaction-based concurrency control, to guarantee access consistency without explicit synchronization. This paper presents preliminary results from a prototype PIOUS implementation

Keywords

buffer storage; concurrency control; file organisation; input-output programs; parallel programming; synchronisation; PIOUS; access consistency; buffer cache; cost-effective; data declustering; distributed computing environments; explicit synchronization; input output system; networked computing resources; parallel file system architecture; prototype; scalable bandwidth; scalable parallel I/O system; transaction-based concurrency control; Bandwidth; Computer architecture; Computer networks; Concurrent computing; Distributed computing; Fault tolerance; File servers; File systems; Libraries; Software architecture;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Scalable High-Performance Computing Conference, 1994., Proceedings of the

Conference_Location

Knoxville, TN

Print_ISBN

0-8186-5680-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SHPCC.1994.296629

Filename

296629