Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. Eng. & Comput. Sci., California Univ., Berkeley, CA, USA
Abstract :
The technology trends underlying high-performance network-based storage, namely, advances in networks, storage devices, and I/O controller and server architectures, are discussed. The emphasis is on the integration of storage and network services and the challenges of managing the complex storage hierarchy of the future: file caches, online disk storage, nearline data libraries, and offline archives. Several commercial systems and research prototypes that are leading to a new approach to high-performance computing based on network-attached storage are reviewed
Keywords :
digital storage; distributed processing; reviews; I/O controller; advances in networks; channel-based storage; file caches; high-performance computing; high-performance network-based storage; integration of storage and network services; nearline data libraries; network-attached storage; offline archives; online disk storage; server architectures; storage devices; technology trends; Bandwidth; Computational modeling; Computer networks; Distributed computing; File servers; File systems; Hardware; Network servers; Space technology; Workstations;
