Parallel I/O for distributed systems: Issues and implementation

Future Generation Computer Systems

Volumn 12, Issue 1 SPEC. ISS., 1996, Pages 25-38

  Sunderam, Vaidy S ^a   Moyer, Steven A ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Parallel distributed input output; PVM; Scalable transactions

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; COMPUTER SOFTWARE PORTABILITY; CONCURRENCY CONTROL; DATABASE SYSTEMS; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; FILE ORGANIZATION; INPUT OUTPUT PROGRAMS; INTERFACES (COMPUTER); PERFORMANCE;

FILE ACCESS PATTERNS; LANGUAGE EXTENSIONS; PARALLEL FILE SYSTEMS; PARALLEL VIRTUAL MACHINE; PIOUS SYSTEM; RUNTIME LIBRARIES;

PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 0030147711     PISSN: 0167739X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0167-739X(95)00033-O     Document Type: Article

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