Multimedia resource management in OS/390 LAN Server

IBM Systems Journal

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 393-409

  Dan, A ^a,b,c,d   Dulin, S ^e   Marcotte, S ^e   Sitaram, D ^e  

^a IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (India)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^d Research Center   (United States)

^e NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; LOCAL AREA NETWORKS; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; VOICE/DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

FILE SERVERS; RESOURCE MANAGER (RM);

INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

EID: 0030715826     PISSN: 00188670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1147/sj.363.0393     Document Type: Article

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16. Data sets consisting of individual disks may also be calibrated. These are considered striping groups of size one by the resource manager.
17. Currently, this feature is not used.
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