Cooperative Caching in the pCFS parallel Cluster File System

Author

Lopes, Paulo A. ; Medeiros, Pedro D.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Informatics, Univ. Nova de Lisboa

fYear

0

fDate

0-0 0

Firstpage

347

Lastpage

348

Abstract

This short paper describes the cooperative caching architecture of pCFS, a shared disk cluster file system (CFS) which aims to achieve high performance in a broad spectrum of I/O intensive applications ranging from computational access to large data sets to video streaming and databases, and includes an extended API for parallel I/O access. pCFS is targeted at small to medium sized clusters where data is stored in fibre channel shared devices on a storage area network (SAN) and exploits two interconnect fabrics: a SAN to access on-disk data, and a LAN, used both for the exchange of control information (related to locking and cache management) and for cooperative caching dataflow

Keywords

application program interfaces; cache storage; memory architecture; parallel processing; storage area networks; API; cooperative caching architecture; disk cluster file system; fibre channel shared devices; parallel I-O access; parallel cluster file system; storage area network; Computer applications; Computer architecture; Computer networks; Concurrent computing; Cooperative caching; Databases; File systems; High performance computing; Storage area networks; Streaming media;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

High Performance Distributed Computing, 2006 15th IEEE International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Paris

ISSN

1082-8907

Print_ISBN

1-4244-0307-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/HPDC.2006.1652177

Filename

1652177