This paper describes measurement tests of Parallel Virtual File System (PVFS) and Network File System (NFS) over a commodity Linux cluster connected with Myrinet. PVFS stores a ...
The World-Wide Web provides remote access to pages using its own naming scheme (URLs), transfer protocol (HTTP), and cache algorithms. Not only does using these special-purpose me...
A pass-through server such as an NFS server backed by an iSCSI[1] storage server only passes data between the storage server and NFS clients. Ideally it should require at most one...
The phase-change random access memory (PRAM) technology is fast maturing to production levels. Main advantages of PRAM are non-volatility, byte addressability, in-place programmab...
By providing direct data transfer between storage and client, network-attached storage devices have the potential to improve scalability for existing distributed file systems (by...
Garth A. Gibson, David Nagle, Khalil Amiri, Fay W....