High performance mass storage and parallel I/O : technologies and applications /
edited by Hai Jin, Toni Cortes, Rajkumar Buyya..
- 1 PDF (xviii, 670 pages) : illustrations.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Foreword -- Preface -- I. Introduction to Redundant Disk Array Architecture -- 1. A Case for Redundant Arrays of Inexpensive Disks (RAID) -- 2. Disk System Architectures for High Performance Computing -- 3. The Performance of Parity Placements in Disk Arrays -- 4. A Performance Comparison of RAID-5 and Log-Structured Arrays -- II. Advanced Disk Array Architectures -- 5. Parity Logging Overcoming the Small Write Problem in Redundant Disk Arrays -- 6. Distributed RAID - A New Multiple Copy Algorithm -- 7. The HP AutoRAID Hierarchical Storage System -- 8. Scalable Distributed Log Structured Arrays -- 9. Comparison of Sparing Alternatives for Disk Arrays -- 10. Destage Algorithms for Disk Arrays with Non-Volatile Caches -- III. Fault Tolerance Issues in Disk Arrays -- 11. Failure Correction Techniques for Large Disk Arrays -- 12. Tolerating Multiple Failures in RAID Architectures with Optimal Storage and Uniform Declustering -- 13. Parity Declustering for Continuous Operation in Redundant Disk Arrays -- 14. The EVENODD Code and its Generalization -- IV. Caching and Prefetching -- 15. RAPID-Cache - A Reliable and Inexpensive Write Cache for Disk I/O Systems -- 16. Informed Prefetching and Caching -- 17. Practical Prefetching Techniques for Multiprocessor File Systems -- 18. Design Issues of a Cooperative Cache with no Coherence Problems -- 19. Collective Buffering: Improving Parallel I/O Performance -- V. Parallel File Systems -- 20. The Vesta Parallel File System -- 21. The Zebra Striped Network File System -- 22. PPFS: A High Performance Portable Parallel File System -- 23. The Global File System -- 24. Serverless Network File Systems -- VI. Parallel I/O Systems -- 25. Parallel I/O Subsystems in Massively Parallel Supercomputer -- 26. RAID-II: A High-Bandwidth Network File Server -- 27. Petal: Distributed Virtual Disks -- 28. A Cost-Effective, High-Bandwidth Storage Architecture -- 29. RAID-x: A New Distributed Disk Array for I/O-Centric Cluster Computing. 30. Designing a Self-Maintaining Storage System -- 31. Modeling and Evaluation of Fibre Channel Storage Area Networks -- VII. Parallel I/O Programming Paradigms -- 32. Overview of the MPI-IO Parallel I/O Interface -- 33. Disk Resident Arrays: An Array-Oriented I/O Library for Out-of-Core Computations -- 34. Active Disks: Programming Model, Algorithms and Evaluation -- 35. Disk-directed I/O for MIMD Multiprocessors -- VIII. Parallel I/O Applications and Environments -- 36. Applications-Driven Parallel I/O -- 37. Comparing Multimedia Storage Architectures -- 38. High Availability in Clustered Multimedia Servers -- 39. An Architecture for a Scalable High-Performance Digital Library -- 40. I/O Requirements of Scientific Applications: An Evolutionary View -- 41. Mitra: A Scalable Continuous Media Server -- IX. Emerging Technologies and Future Trends -- 42. An Introduction to the InfiniBand Architecture -- 43. XML, Hyper-media, and Fortran I/O -- 44. I/O Programming Paradigms: Past and Future -- 45. Scientific Applications using Parallel I/O -- Index.
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. Due to the growth of Internet-driven applications, issues such as storage capacity and access speed have become critical in the design of today's computer systems. Book fills the need for a readily-accessible single reference source on the subject of high-performance, large scale storage and delivery systems. Contains the latest information and future directions of disk arrays and parallel I/O A Wiley-IEEE Press Publication.