Paper Info
Title
Towards a Scalable Metacomputing Storage Service
Abstract
We describe a prototypical storage service through which we are addressing some of the open storage issues in wide-area distributed high-performance computing. We discuss some of the relevant topics such as latency-tolerance, hierarchical storage integration, and legacy and commercial application support. Existing high-performance computing environments are either ad-hoc or focus narrowly on the simple client- server case. The storage service which we are developing as part of the DISCWorld metacomputing infrastructure will provide high-performance access to a global \cloud" of storage resources in a manner which is scal- able, secure, adaptive and portable, requiring no application or operating system modications. Our system design provides flexible, modular and user-extensible access to arbitrary storage mechanisms and on-demand data generation and transformations. We describe our current proto- type's status, some performance analysis, other related research and our future plans for the system.
Year
DOI
Venue
1999
10.1007/BFb0100596
HPCN Europe
Keywords
Field
DocType
scalable metacomputing storage service,client server,system design,operating system
File system,Converged storage,Computer science,Information repository,Modular design,Systems architecture,Metacomputing,Distributed computing,Cloud computing,Scalability
Conference
Volume
ISSN
ISBN
1593
0302-9743
3-540-65821-1
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
4
0.50
14
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Craig J. Patten1172.93
K. A. Hawick229366.26
J. F. Hercus33513.19