On the use of GPUs in realizing cost-effective distributed RAID

Proceedings of the 2012 IEEE 20th International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems, MASCOTS 2012

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 469-478

  Khasymski, Aleksandr ^a   Rafique, M Mustafa ^a,b   Butt, Ali R ^a   Vazhkudai, Sudharshan S ^c   Nikolopoulos, Dimitrios S ^d  

^a VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b QATAR FOUNDATION   (Qatar)

^c OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COST EFFECTIVENESS; DATA HANDLING; FAULT TOLERANCE; FILE ORGANIZATION; HARDWARE; PROGRAM PROCESSORS;

APPLICATION DATA; DATA RECONSTRUCTION; DISTRIBUTED RAID; EXPONENTIAL GROWTH; HARDWARE-BASED APPROACH; HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING (HPC); INNOVATIVE SOLUTIONS; PARALLEL FILE SYSTEM;

DIGITAL STORAGE;

EID: 84868232707     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/MASCOTS.2012.59     Document Type: Conference Paper

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