GPFS: A shared-disk file system for large computing clusters

Proceedings of the FAST 2002 Conference on File and Storage Technologies

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages

  Schmuck, Frank ^a   Haskin, Roger ^a  

^a IBM ALMADEN RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS; FILE ORGANIZATION; SUPERCOMPUTERS;

ACADEMIC COMMUNITY; CLUSTER COMPUTER; DISTRIBUTED LOCKING; LARGE CLUSTERS; LARGE-COMPUTING; PARALLEL SUPERCOMPUTER; RECOVERY TECHNIQUES; RECOVERY TECHNOLOGY;

LOCKS (FASTENERS);

EID: 85084163004     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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