In petabyte-scale distributed file systems that decouple read and write from metadata operations, behavior of the metadata server cluster will be critical to overall system perfo...
Sage A. Weil, Kristal T. Pollack, Scott A. Brandt,...
: This paper describes the architecture and services developed by the GRANI project for the Australian Nanostructural Analysis Network Organization (NANO). The aim of GRANI was to ...
Brendan Mauger, Jane Hunter, John Drennan, Ashley ...
We introduce MaRS, a reconfigurable, parallel computing engine with special emphasis on scalability, lending itself to the computation-/data-intensive multimedia data processing a...
Nozar Tabrizi, Nader Bagherzadeh, Amir Hosein Kama...
The recent improvements in workstation and interconnection network performance have popularized the clusters of off-the-shelf workstations. However, the usefulness of these cluste...
—As parallel file systems span larger and larger numbers of nodes in order to provide the performance and scalability necessary for modern cluster applications, the need for fau...