DHPC Technical Report DHPC-062
Distributed and Hierarchical Storage Systems
C.J. Patten, K.A. Hawick, J.F. Hercus and A.L. Brown
Archived: 31 December 1998
Published in Proc. of the 6th IDEA Workshop,
Rutherglen, January 1999.
Abstract
We discuss issues and technologies for implementing and applying
distributed, high-performance storage systems. We review a range of
software systems for distributed storage management, and summarise
what we believe to be the most important issues and the outstanding
problems in distributed storage research. We outline our vision for
integrated storage management that is compatible with our DISCWorld
wide-area service-based metacomputing environment. Very large on-line
archives present a challenge and our driving force for developing a
distributed storage system. In addition, robotic tape silos form the
lowest level of many of these archives. Their integration into the
storage hierarchy is non-trivial, proprietary and expensive. We
describe how our system can provide the necessary infrastructure for
such applications.
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