Armada: a parallel file system for computational grids

Author

Oldfield, Ron ; Kotz, David

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Dartmouth Coll., Hanover, NH, USA

fYear

2001

fDate

2001

Firstpage

194

Lastpage

201

Abstract

High-performance distributed computing appears to be shifting away from tightly-connected supercomputers to “computational grids” composed of heterogeneous systems of networks, computers, storage devices and various other devices that collectively act as a single geographically distributed “virtual” computer. One of the great challenges for this environment is providing efficient parallel data access to remote distributed data sets. In this paper, we discuss some of the issues associated with parallel I/O and computational grids and describe the design of a flexible parallel file system that allows the application to control the behavior and functionality of virtually all aspects of the file system

Keywords

parallel databases; virtual machines; wide area networks; Armada; computational grids; computer networks; distributed virtual computer; functionality control; high-performance distributed computing; networked storage devices; parallel I/O; parallel data access; parallel file system; remote distributed data sets; Application software; Computer networks; Concurrent computing; Control systems; Distributed computing; File servers; File systems; Grid computing; Network servers; Supercomputers;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Cluster Computing and the Grid, 2001. Proceedings. First IEEE/ACM International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Brisbane, Qld.

Print_ISBN

0-7695-1010-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CCGRID.2001.923193

Filename

923193