Title :
Block-level visualization: how far can we go?
Author :
Flourish, M.D. ; Anastasiadis, Stergios V. ; Bilas, Angelos
Author_Institution :
Inst. of Comput. Sci., Found. for Res. & Technol., Heraklion, Greece
Abstract :
In this paper, we present our vision on building large-scale storage systems from commodity components in a data center. For reasons of efficiency and flexibility, we advocate maintaining sophisticated data management functions behind a block-based interface. We anticipate that such an interface can be customized to meet the diverse needs of end-users and applications through the extensible storage system architecture that we propose.
Keywords :
information storage; storage management; block-based interface; block-level visualization; data management function; storage system architecture; Access protocols; Buildings; Computer networks; Computer science; Costs; Ethernet networks; Hardware; Image storage; Large-scale systems; Technology management;
Conference_Titel :
Local to Global Data Interoperability - Challenges and Technologies, 2005
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-9228-0
DOI :
10.1109/LGDI.2005.1612474
