Improved read performance in a cost-effective, fault-tolerant parallel virtual file system (CEFT-PVFS)

Proceedings - CCGrid 2003: 3rd IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 730-735

  Zhu, Yifeng ^a   Jiang, Hong ^a   Qin, Xiao ^a   Feng, Dan ^b   Swanson, David R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^b HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLUSTER ENVIRONMENTS; COMPUTATIONAL NODES; DATA-INTENSIVE APPLICATION; PARALLEL FILE SYSTEM; PARALLEL STORAGE SYSTEMS; PARALLEL VIRTUAL FILE SYSTEMS; PERFORMANCE BOTTLENECKS; ROUND-ROBIN FASHIONS;

CLUSTER COMPUTING; FILE ORGANIZATION;

DIGITAL STORAGE;

EID: 84887507469     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CCGRID.2003.1199440     Document Type: Conference Paper

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