A light-weight, collaborative temporary file system for clustered Web servers

Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing

Volumn 66, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 750-762

  Wang, Jun ^a,b,c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^b IEEE   (United States)

^c ACM   (United States)

^d USENIX ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Cluster; Collaborative; File system; I O; Performance; RDMA; Web server

Indexed keywords

CLUSTER; FILE SYSTEM; I/O; WEB SERVER;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA STORAGE EQUIPMENT; PERSONAL COMPUTERS; PROBABILITY; WORLD WIDE WEB;

SERVERS;

EID: 33645498902     PISSN: 07437315     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpdc.2005.12.003     Document Type: Article

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