Using a Gigabit Ethernet cluster as a distributed disk array with multiple fault tolerance

Proceedings - Conference on Local Computer Networks, LCN

Volumn 2003-January, Issue , 2003, Pages 605-613

  Di Marco, A ^a   Chiola, G ^a   Ciaccio, G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Aggregates; Costs; Ethernet networks; Fault tolerance; Hard disks; Personal communication networks; Prototypes; Redundancy; Space stations; Workstations

Indexed keywords

ABSTRACTING; AGGREGATES; COMPUTER WORKSTATIONS; COSTS; DIGITAL STORAGE; ETHERNET; FAULT TOLERANCE; HARD DISK STORAGE; PERSONAL COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; REDUNDANCY; SPACE STATIONS; TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORKS;

COMMODITY CLUSTERS; DATA REDUNDANCY; DISTRIBUTED RAID; ETHERNET NETWORKS; FAULT-TOLERANT; GIGABIT ETHERNET; PROTOTYPES; STORAGE SERVICES;

COMPUTER NETWORKS;

EID: 84944409194     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/LCN.2003.1243187     Document Type: Conference Paper

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