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

fYear

2001

fDate

2001

Firstpage

201

Lastpage

206

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;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Parallel Processing Workshops, 2001. International Conference on

Conference_Location

Valencia

ISSN

1530-2016

Print_ISBN

0-7695-1260-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICPPW.2001.951944

Filename

951944