DHPC Technical Report DHPC-085
Flexible High-Performance Access to Distributed Storage Resources
Craig J. Patten and K.A.Hawick
Archived: 12 March 2000
Published in Proc. of the Ninth IEEE Symposium on High Performance
Distributed Computing, Pittsburgh, PA, USA, August 2000.
Abstract
With the advent of computational grids and commodity clusters, the
issues behind distributed data storage, management and access have
become more complex. Existing parallel and distributed file systems
and hierarchical storage systems were not designed for the widely
variable requirements and envvironments found within such distributed
systems. We have designed and implemented a prototype system
providing a basic message-passing interface with which portable
higher-level storage services can be produced for such environments.
The Distributed Active Resource Architecture (DARC) enables the
development of portable, extensible and adaptive storage services
which can be optimized for their target user requirements which are
independent of the underlying storage abstraction and end-user
interface.
Keywords: DARC; Strata; message passing; storage archive;
distributed systems; GRID environment.
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