The cluster file system: Integration of high performance communication and I/O in clusters

2nd IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid, CCGrid 2002

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages 173-182

  Cristaldi, Rosario ^a   Iannello, Giulio ^a   Delfino, Francesco ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^b Laboratorio Nazionale CINI per l'Informatica e la Telematica Multimediali   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLUSTER COMPUTING; COMPUTER SOFTWARE PORTABILITY; FILE ORGANIZATION;

CLUSTER ENVIRONMENTS; CLUSTER FILE SYSTEMS; HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE; HIGH PERFORMANCE COMMUNICATION; INTERNAL ARCHITECTURE; INTERNAL COORDINATION; PARALLEL FILE SYSTEM; PERFORMANCE MEASURE;

COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE;

EID: 84887871125     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CCGRID.2002.1017125     Document Type: Conference Paper

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