Title :
Flexible high-performance access to distributed storage resources
Author :
Patten, Craig J. ; Hawick, K.A.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci., Adelaide Univ., SA, Australia
Abstract :
Describes a software architecture for storage services in computational grid environments. Based upon a lightweight message-passing paradigm, the architecture enables the provision and composition of active, distributed storage services. These services can then cooperatively provide access to distributed storage in a manner potentially optimized for dataset and resource environments. We report on the design and implementation of a distributed file system and a dataset-specific satellite imagery service using the architecture. We discuss data movement and storage issues and implications for future work with the architecture
Keywords :
active databases; distributed databases; distributed memory systems; message passing; parallel memories; remote sensing; software architecture; visual databases; active distributed storage services; computational grid environments; cooperative access provision; data movement; data-set environments; dataset-specific satellite imagery service; distributed file system; distributed storage resources; flexible high-performance resource access; lightweight message-passing paradigm; resource environments; software architecture; storage services; Computer architecture; Distributed computing; File servers; File systems; Grid computing; Memory; Network servers; Peer to peer computing; Prefetching; Satellites;
Conference_Titel :
High-Performance Distributed Computing, 2000. Proceedings. The Ninth International Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Pittsburgh, PA
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-0783-2
DOI :
10.1109/HPDC.2000.868648
