Evaluating ParFiSys: A high-performance parallel and distributed file system

Journal of Systems Architecture

Volumn 43, Issue 8, 1997, Pages 533-542

  Perez F ^a   Carretero, J ^a   Garcia F ^a   De Miguel, P ^a   Alonso, L ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD POLITÉCNICA DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Data distribution; File systems; Input output; MPP; Parallelism

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; COMPUTER SYSTEMS; DATA PROCESSING; DATABASE SYSTEMS; INPUT OUTPUT PROGRAMS;

DATA DISTRIBUTION; FILE SYSTEMS; PARALLELISM; PARFISYS; SCIENTIFIC APPLICATIONS;

PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 0031145829     PISSN: 13837621     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1383-7621(96)00124-5     Document Type: Article

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