Design issues of a cooperative cache with no coherence problems

High Performance Mass Storage and Parallel I/O: Technologies and Applications

Volumn , Issue , 2001, Pages 259-270

  Cortes, Toni ^a   Girona, Sergi ^a   Labarta, Jesús ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Coherence; Fault tolerance; Fault tolerant systems; File systems; Parallel machines; Servers; System performance

Indexed keywords

COHERENT LIGHT; FAULT TOLERANCE; FILE ORGANIZATION; SERVERS;

COMPARISON RESULT; COOPERATIVE CACHE; DESIGN ISSUES; FAULT TOLERANT SYSTEMS; FILE SYSTEMS; NETWORKS OF WORKSTATIONS; PARALLEL MACHINE; SYSTEM PERFORMANCE;

PROBLEM SOLVING;

EID: 31144469081     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1109/9780470544839.ch18     Document Type: Chapter

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