ParaServe: a parallel mass storage server

Author

Chan, K.Y. ; Lee, K.K. ; Leong, P.C. ; Sriskanthan, N. ; Hui, S.C.

Author_Institution

Sch. of Appl. Sci., Nanyang Technol. Inst., Singapore

fYear

1994

fDate

22-26 Aug 1994

Firstpage

486

Abstract

ParaServe is an intelligent parallel mass storage file server. Drawing on the concepts of RAID it utilizes arrays of volume production disk drives connected and controlled by a transputer based network to achieve as a primary objective, high I/O performance. These levels of performance are required by systems which provide database services, especially multimedia and video data, to a large number of users. The scalability of transputer arrays will provide the processing capabilities for the eventual incorporation of database processing facilities like select, join and sort

Keywords

file servers; random-access storage; storage management; transputer systems; transputers; ParaServe; RAID; database processing facilities; database services; high I/O performance; intelligent parallel mass storage file server; join; parallel mass storage server; scalability; select; sort; transputer arrays; transputer based network; volume production disk drives; Disk drives; Displays; FDDI; Fires; Machine intelligence; Multimedia databases; Multimedia systems; Network servers; Production; Reduced instruction set computing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

TENCON '94. IEEE Region 10's Ninth Annual International Conference. Theme: Frontiers of Computer Technology. Proceedings of 1994

Print_ISBN

0-7803-1862-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/TENCON.1994.369253

Filename

369253