Improving the performance of remote I/O using asynchronous primitives

Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing

Volumn 2006, Issue , 2006, Pages 218-228

  Ali, Nawab ^a   Lauria, Mario ^a  

^a Ohio State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASYNCHRONOUS PRIMITIVES; GRID ENVIRONMENT; WRITE BANDWIDTH;

DATA STORAGE EQUIPMENT; DATA STRUCTURES; DIGITAL LIBRARIES; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; INTERNET; OPTIMIZATION;

INPUT OUTPUT PROGRAMS;

EID: 33845871233     PISSN: 10828907     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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