Implementation of RAID

Author

Bhargava, Bharat ; Riedl, John

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Purdue Univ., West Lafayette, IN, USA

fYear

1988

fDate

10-12 Oct 1988

Firstpage

157

Lastpage

166

Abstract

RAID is a robust and adaptable distributed system for transaction processing. It is a message-passing system, with server processes on each site. A high-level, layered communications package provides a clean, location independent interface between servers. RAID processes concurrent updates and retrievals on multiple sites. The servers manage concurrent processing, consistent replicated copies during site failures or network partitionings, and atomic distributed commitment. The latest version of the communications package is able to deliver messages in a high-performance configuration in which several servers are linked into a single process. RAID provides the infrastructure to investigate experimentally various methods for supporting reliable distributed-transaction processing. Experiments on handling site failure with partial replication, checkpointing, and alternative communications methods have been performed. Measurements on various aspects of RAID transaction processing performance are presented

Keywords

concurrency control; distributed processing; RAID; atomic distributed commitment; checkpointing; concurrent processing; layered communications package; message-passing system; network partitionings; partial replication; replicated copies; robust and adaptable distributed system; site failure; site failures; transaction processing; Atomic layer deposition; Checkpointing; Distributed computing; Network servers; Packaging; Robustness; Software measurement; Sun; Telecommunication network reliability; Testing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Reliable Distributed Systems, 1988. Proceedings., Seventh Symposium on

Conference_Location

Columbus, OH

Print_ISBN

0-8186-0875-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/RELDIS.1988.25791

Filename

25791