CrownFS: a clustered continuous media server

Author

Son, Young-Sung ; Bae, Yu-Seok ; Kwon, Oh-Young ; Kim, Tae-Geun ; Park, Chang-Soon

Author_Institution

Dept. of Network Comput., Syst. Eng. Res. Inst., Taejon, South Korea

fYear

1997

fDate

10-13 Dec 1997

Firstpage

498

Lastpage

505

Abstract

CrownFS is a file system for continuous media server in the CROWN (Clustering Resources On Workstations´ Network) system. Because of the high I/O bandwidth rate and strict real-time constraints, the design issues of CrownFS are that of efficiently balancing user load against limited disk: bandwidth, network and I/O channel bandwidth. CrownFS accomplishes this balancing by striping continuous data file across several workstations and computing at each workstation in the CROWN system. This paper describes the CROWN system architecture and the CrownFS design. CrownFS runs on a cluster of workstations consisted of Kawaiis, AlphaStations and PCs

Keywords

file organisation; file servers; multimedia systems; AlphaStations; CrownFS; Kawaiis; PCs; balancing user load; cluster of workstations; clustered; continuous data file; continuous media server; file system; real-time constraints; Bandwidth; Costs; File servers; File systems; Hardware; Network servers; Personal communication networks; Streaming media; Systems engineering and theory; Workstations;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Parallel and Distributed Systems, 1997. Proceedings., 1997 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Seoul

Print_ISBN

0-8186-8227-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICPADS.1997.652592

Filename

652592