DHPC Talk DHPCT-005

Two Decades of Distributed File Storage

C.J.Patten

Archived: 21 October 1997

Seminar presented at Argonne National Laboratory, USA, Division of Mathematics and Computer Science on Wednesday 5th November, 1997.

Abstract

Distributed file systems constitute the mainstay of information flow in many computer users' electronic existence, and there has been a correspondingly large amount of research performed in the field. From simple file servers with little more functionality than the ability to transfer files, to replicated file systems with atomic transactions, and through to web file systems, the focus of distributed storage research has continuously been changing. This talk describes some of the well-worn ground in the field, what has been successful and what has not, and where it looks like the research focus is heading. This work is in support of research into a distributed storage component of a distributed high performance computing environment.

PostScript version of the slides


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