Using high speed networks to enable distributed parallel image server systems

Author

Tierney, Brian L. ; Johnston, William E. ; Herzog, Hanan ; Hoo, Gary ; Jin, Guojun ; Lee, Jason ; Chen, Ling Tony ; Rotem, Doron

Author_Institution

Imaging & Distributed Comput. Group, Lawrence Berkeley Lab., CA, USA

fYear

1994

fDate

14-18 Nov 1994

Firstpage

610

Lastpage

619

Abstract

We describe the design and implementation of a distributed parallel storage system that uses high-speed ATM networks as a key element of the architecture. Other elements include a collection of network-based disk block servers, and an associated name server that provides some file system functionality. The implementation is based on user level software that runs on UNIX workstations. Both the architecture and the implementation are intended to provide for easy and economical scalability. This approach has yielded a data source that scales economically to very high speed. Target applications include online storage for both very large images and video sequences. This paper describes the architecture, and explores the performance issues of the current implementation

Keywords

asynchronous transfer mode; computer networks; file servers; image processing; memory architecture; performance evaluation; UNIX workstations; data source; distributed parallel image server systems; distributed parallel storage system; economical scalability; file system functionality; high speed networks; high-speed ATM networks; name server; network-based disk block servers; online storage; user level software; very large images; video sequences; Application software; Computer architecture; File servers; File systems; High-speed networks; Image storage; Network servers; Scalability; Video sequences; Workstations;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Supercomputing '94., Proceedings

Conference_Location

Washington, DC

Print_ISBN

0-8186-6605-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SUPERC.1994.344325

Filename

344325