Analyzing the feasibility of building a new mass storage system on distributed resources

Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience

Volumn 20, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 1131-1150

  Huang, H Howie ^a   Karpovich, John F ^a   Grimshaw, Andrew S ^a  

^a University of Virginia   (United States)

Author keywords

Distributed computing; Storage systems

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION PROGRAMS; COST EFFECTIVENESS; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; MICROCOMPUTERS; VIRTUAL STORAGE;

ACADEMIC INSTITUTIONS; ALLOCATION STRATEGY; DISTRIBUTED RESOURCES; MASS STORAGE SYSTEM; MASSIVE STORAGE SYSTEMS; STORAGE CHARACTERISTIC; STORAGE SYSTEMS; TRACE DRIVEN SIMULATION;

COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS;

EID: 47049123483     PISSN: 15320626     EISSN: 15320634     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cpe.1260     Document Type: Article

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