Title :
A new multiagent based architecture for high performance I/O in clusters
Author :
Perez, Maria S. ; Garcia, Felix ; Carretero, Jesus
Author_Institution :
Fac. de Inf., Univ. Politecnica de Madrid, Spain
Abstract :
This paper presents MAPFS, a MultiAgent Parallel File System for clusters. MAPFS has been conceived as a client able to interact with different existing traditional or distributed servers and provide them the parallel I/O characteristics. Therefore, MAPFS allows take advantage of the use of the parallelism in clusters of workstations. MAPFS defines a multiagent architecture that defines the storage group concept, as a set of servers that form a group to support the parallel I/O for MAPFS. MAPFS offers a file system interface that include traditional operations, advanced and collective operations, and fault tolerance and caching operations
Keywords :
fault tolerant computing; file servers; multi-agent systems; workstation clusters; MAPFS; caching; clusters; clusters of workstations; fault tolerance; file system interface; high performance I/O; multiagent based architecture; servers; storage group concept; Application software; Fault tolerance; File servers; File systems; Libraries; Network servers; Parallel processing; Software systems; Standardization; Workstations;
Conference_Titel :
Parallel Processing Workshops, 2001. International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Valencia
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-1260-7
DOI :
10.1109/ICPPW.2001.951944
