RAMA: An easy-to-use, high-performance parallel file system

Parallel Computing

Volumn 23, Issue 4-5, 1997, Pages 419-446

  Miller, Ethan L ^a   Katz, Randy H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

High performance I O; Parallel disk; Parallel file system; Pseudo random file block layout; Scientific computing

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; DATA TRANSFER; FILE ORGANIZATION; INTERFACES (COMPUTER); PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

MASSIVELY PARALLEL FILE SYSTEMS; PSEUDO RANDOM FILE BLOCK LAYOUT;

DISTRIBUTED DATABASE SYSTEMS;

EID: 0031168747     PISSN: 01678191     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-8191(97)00008-2     Document Type: Article

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