Title :
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
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;
Conference_Titel :
Parallel and Distributed Systems, 1997. Proceedings., 1997 International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Seoul
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-8227-2
DOI :
10.1109/ICPADS.1997.652592
