Characterizing concurrency control performance for the PIOUS parallel file system

Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 81-91

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

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 0030579025     PISSN: 07437315     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jpdc.1996.0130     Document Type: Article

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