Flexible high-performance access to distributed storage resources

Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing

Volumn 2000-January, Issue , 2000, Pages 175-181

  Patten, C J ^a   Hawick, K A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Computer architecture; Distributed computing; File servers; File systems; Grid computing; Memory; Network servers; Peer to peer computing; Prefetching; Satellites

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; DATA STORAGE EQUIPMENT; DIGITAL STORAGE; FILE ORGANIZATION; GRID COMPUTING; MESSAGE PASSING; NETWORK ARCHITECTURE; PEER TO PEER NETWORKS; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SATELLITES; SERVERS; BANDWIDTH; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; INTERFACES (COMPUTER); WIDE AREA NETWORKS;

FILE SERVERS; FILE SYSTEMS; NETWORK SERVER; PEER-TO-PEER COMPUTING; PREFETCHING; DISTRIBUTED ACTIVE RESOURCE ARCHITECTURE; DISTRIBUTED FILE SYSTEM; SATELLITE IMAGERY SERVICE; SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURE;

DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE;

EID: 0033698619     PISSN: 10828907     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/HPDC.2000.868648     Document Type: Conference Paper

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