Title :
ParaServe: a parallel mass storage server
Author :
Chan, K.Y. ; Lee, K.K. ; Leong, P.C. ; Sriskanthan, N. ; Hui, S.C.
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Appl. Sci., Nanyang Technol. Inst., Singapore
Abstract :
ParaServe is an intelligent parallel mass storage file server. Drawing on the concepts of RAID it utilizes arrays of volume production disk drives connected and controlled by a transputer based network to achieve as a primary objective, high I/O performance. These levels of performance are required by systems which provide database services, especially multimedia and video data, to a large number of users. The scalability of transputer arrays will provide the processing capabilities for the eventual incorporation of database processing facilities like select, join and sort
Keywords :
file servers; random-access storage; storage management; transputer systems; transputers; ParaServe; RAID; database processing facilities; database services; high I/O performance; intelligent parallel mass storage file server; join; parallel mass storage server; scalability; select; sort; transputer arrays; transputer based network; volume production disk drives; Disk drives; Displays; FDDI; Fires; Machine intelligence; Multimedia databases; Multimedia systems; Network servers; Production; Reduced instruction set computing;
Conference_Titel :
TENCON '94. IEEE Region 10's Ninth Annual International Conference. Theme: Frontiers of Computer Technology. Proceedings of 1994
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-1862-5
DOI :
10.1109/TENCON.1994.369253
