Grid-Oriented Storage: A single-image, cross-domain, high-bandwidth architecture

IEEE Transactions on Computers

Volumn 56, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 474-487

  Wang, Frank Zhigang ^a   Wu, Sining ^a   Helian, Na ^b   Parker, Michael Andrew ^c   Guo, Yike ^d   Deng, Yuhui ^a   Khare, Vineet R ^a  

^a Cambridge Cranfield High Performance Computing Facility   (United Kingdom)

^b LONDON METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^d IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bulk data transfer; Data communications; Data storage; Grid computing; GridFTP; Limited memory capacity system; Network file system; Real time microkernel; Remote file access

Indexed keywords

DATA STORAGE EQUIPMENT; DATA TRANSFER; GRID COMPUTING; SERVERS; USER INTERFACES;

BULK DATA TRANSFER; FILE SERVER; GRID-ORIENTED STORAGE; LIMITED MEMORY-CAPACITY SYSTEM; NETWORK FILE SYSTEM; REAL-TIME MICROKERNEL; REMOTE FILE ACCESS;

DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 34047122086     PISSN: 00189340     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TC.2007.1005     Document Type: Article

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