Scalable high-level caching for parallel I/O

Proceedings - International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium, IPDPS 2004 (Abstracts and CD-ROM)

Volumn 18, Issue , 2004, Pages 1367-1376

  Coloma, Kenin ^a   Choudhary, Alok ^a   Liao, Wei Keng ^a   Ward, Lee ^b   Russell, Eric ^b   Pundit, Neil ^b  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CACHE COHERENCY; CACHING; LOCAL FILE SYSTEMS; PARALLEL ENVIRONMENT;

ABSTRACTING; COSTS; DATA REDUCTION; LARGE SCALE SYSTEMS; PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS; SEMANTICS; THROUGHPUT;

CACHE MEMORY;

EID: 12444329799     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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