Caching and writeback policies in parallel file systems

Proceedings of the 3rd IEEE Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing 1991

Volumn , Issue , 1991, Pages 60-67

  Kotz, D ^a   Ellis, C S ^b  

^a DARTMOUTH COLLEGE   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CACHE MANAGEMENT TECHNIQUES; DISK SPEED; PARALLEL DISK SYSTEMS; PARALLEL DISKS; PARALLEL FILE SYSTEM; PROCESSING SPEED; WRITE-BACK;

FILE ORGANIZATION;

EID: 40949083630     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/SPDP.1991.218296     Document Type: Conference Paper

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