Flexible high-performance access to distributed storage resources

Describes a software architecture for storage services in computational grid environments. Based upon a lightweight message-passing paradigm, the architecture enables the provision and composition of active, distributed storage services. These services can then cooperatively provide access to distri...

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Main Authors: Patten, C.J., Hawick, K.A.
Format: Conference Proceeding
Language:English
Subjects:
Computer architecture
Distributed computing
File servers
File systems
Grid computing
Memory
Network servers
Peer to peer computing
Prefetching
Satellites
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Summary:Describes a software architecture for storage services in computational grid environments. Based upon a lightweight message-passing paradigm, the architecture enables the provision and composition of active, distributed storage services. These services can then cooperatively provide access to distributed storage in a manner potentially optimized for dataset and resource environments. We report on the design and implementation of a distributed file system and a dataset-specific satellite imagery service using the architecture. We discuss data movement and storage issues and implications for future work with the architecture.
ISSN:1082-8907
DOI:10.1109/HPDC.2000.868648