New architecture to reduce I/O bottlenecks in high-performance systems

Author

Coleman, Samuel S. ; Watson, Richard W.

Author_Institution

Lawrence Livermore Nat. Lab., CA, USA

fYear

1993

Firstpage

5

Abstract

Reviews large-scale application input/output requirements that are driving the need for high-performance distributed hierarchical storage. The focus is on evolving, high-performance, network-based storage-system architectures. The authors discuss some ideas about paradigm shifts that provide perspective on what is happening in system architectures; they outline, using examples, application storage and I/O requirements; they review relevant historical trends in storage-system architecture and their limitations; and they outline the IEEE Mass Storage Reference Model, focusing on the experience and issues in the use of network-connected devices and third-part protocol architectures to reduce the overall I/O bottleneck in distributed system environments.

Keywords

memory architecture; I/O bottlenecks; IEEE Mass Storage Reference Model; application storage; distributed hierarchical storage; high-performance systems; historical trends; large-scale application input/output requirements; network-based storage-system architectures; network-connected devices; paradigm shifts; system architectures; third-part protocol architectures; Application software; Communication industry; Computer architecture; Computer industry; Computer networks; Distributed computing; Large-scale systems; Peer to peer computing; Protocols; Workstations;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

System Sciences, 1993, Proceeding of the Twenty-Sixth Hawaii International Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-8186-3230-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/HICSS.1993.270763

Filename

270763