Performance increase mechanisms for parallel and distributed file systems

Parallel Computing

Volumn 23, Issue 4-5, 1997, Pages 525-542

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

^a UNIVERSIDAD POLITÉCNICA DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

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

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS; DATA ACQUISITION; DATA TRANSFER; PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

DISTRIBUTED FILE SYSTEMS; PARALLEL FILE SYSTEMS;

DATABASE SYSTEMS;

EID: 0031163425     PISSN: 01678191     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0167-8191(97)00012-4     Document Type: Article

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