Parallel file system testing for the lunatic fringe: The care and feeding of restless I/O power users

Proceedings - Twenty -second IEEE/Thirteenth NASA Goddard Conference on Mass Storage Systems and Technologies

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 3-17

  Hedges, Richard ^a   Loewe, Bill ^a   McLarty, Tyce ^a   Morrone, Chris ^a  

^a LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FILE SYSTEMS; LUNATIC FRINGES; PERFORMANCE TESTING;

COMPUTER HARDWARE; COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

LARGE SCALE SYSTEMS;

EID: 27144436770     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/MSST.2005.22     Document Type: Conference Paper

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