High performance mass storage and parallel I/O : technologies and applications / edited by Hai Jin, Toni Cortes, Rajkumar Buyya.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Jin, Hai, 1966-

Cortes, Toni.

Buyya, Rajkumar, 1970-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

High performance computing.

Computer storage devices.

Parallel processing (Electronic computers).

Computer input-output equipment.

Physical Description:

xviii, 670 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm

Place of Publication:

Piscataway, NJ : IEEE Press ; New York, NY : Wiley-Interscience, [2002]

Summary:

* 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

Contents:

I Introduction to Redundant Disk Array Architecture 1

1 A Case for Redundant Arrays of Inexpensive Disks (RAID) / David Patterson, Garth Gibson, Randy Katz 3

2 Disk System Architectures for High Performance Computing / Randy H. katz, Garth A. Gibson, D. Patterson 15

3 The Performance of Parity Placements in Disk Arrays / Edward K. Lee, Randy H. Katz 35

4 A Performance Comparison of RAID-5 and Log-Structured Arrays / Jai Menon 55

II Advanced Disk Array Architectures 65

5 Parity Logging Overcoming the Small Write Problem in Redundant Disk Arrays / Daniel Stodolsky, Garth Gibson, Mark Holland 67

6 Distributed RAID-A New Multiple Copy Algorithm / Michael Stonebraker, Gerhard A. Schloss 81

7 The HP AutoRAID Hierarchical Storage System / John Wilkes, Richard Golding, Carl Staelin, Tim Sullivan 90

8 Scalable Distributed Log Structured Arrays / Witold Litwin, Jai Menon 107

9 Comparison of Sparing Alternatives for Disk Arrays / Jai Menon 117

10 Destage Algorithms for Disk Arrays with Non-Volatile Caches / Anujan Varma, Quinn Jacobson 129

III Fault Tolerance Issues in Disk Arrays 147

11 Failure Correction Techniques for Large Disk Arrays / Garth A. Gibson, Lisa Hellerstein, Richard M. Karp, Randy H. Katz, David A. Patterson 149

12 Tolerating Multiple Failures in RAID Architectures with Optimal Storage and Uniform Declustering / Guillermo A. Alvarez, Walter A. Burkhard, Flaviu Cristian 161

13 Parity Declustering for Continuous Operation in Redundant Disk Arrays / Mark Holland, Garth A. Gibson 173

14 The EVENODD Code and its Generalization / Mario Blaum, Jim Brady, Jehoshua Bruck, Jai Menon, Alexander Vardy 187

IV Caching and Prefetching 209

15 RAPID-Cache

A Reliable and Inexpensive Write Cache for Disk I/O Systems / Yiming Hu, Qing Yang, Tycho Nightingale 211

16 Informed Prefetching and Caching / R. Hugo Patterson, Garth A. Gibson, Eka Ginting, Daniel Stodolsky, Jim Zelenka 224

17 Practical Prefetching Techniques for Multiprocessor File Systems / David Kotz, Carla Schlatter Ellis 245

18 Design Issues of a Cooperative Cache with no Coherence Problems / Toni Cortes, Sergi Girona, Jesus Labarta 259

19 Collective Buffering: Improving Parallel I/O Performance / Bill Nitzberg, Virginia Lo 271

V Parallel File Systems 283

20 The Vesta Parallel File System / Peter F. Corbett, Dror G. Feitelson 285

21 The Zebra Striped Network File System / John H. Hartman, John K. Ousterhout 309

22 PPFS: A High Performance Portable Parallel File System / James V. Huber, Jr., Christopher L. Elford, Daniel A. Reed, Andrew A. Chien, David S. Blumenthal 330

23 The Global File System / Steven R. Soltis, Thomas M. Ruwart, Grant M. Erickson, Kenneth W. Preslan, Matthew T. O'Keefe 344

24 Serverless Network File Systems / Thomas E. Anderson, Michael D. Dahlin, Jeanna M. Neefe Matthews, David A. Patteson, Drew S. Roselli, Randolph Y. Wang 364

VI Parallel I/O Systems 387

25 Parallel I/O Subsystems in Massively Parallel Supercomputers / Dror G. Feitelson, Peter F. Corbett, Sandra Johnson Baylor, Yarsun Hsu 389

26 RAID-II: A High-Bandwidth Network File Server / Ann L. Chervenak, Ken Shirriff, John H. Hartman, Ethan L. Miller, Srinivasan Seshan, Randy H. Katz, Ken Lutz, David A. Patterson, Edward K. Lee, Peter M. Chen, Garth A. Gibson 408

27 Petal: Distributed Virtual Disks / Edward K. Lee, Chandramohan A. Thekkath 420

28 A Cost-Effective, High-Bandwidth Storage Architecture / Garth A. Gibson, David F. Nagle, Khalil Amiri, Jeff Butler, Fay W. Chang, Howard Gobioff, Charles Hardin, Erik Riedel, David Rochberg, Jim Zelenka

29 RAID-x: A New Distributed Disk Array for I/O-Centric Cluster Computing / Kai Hwang, Hai Jin, Roy S. C. Ho 445

30 Designing a Self-Maintaining Storage System / Satoshi Asami, Nisha Talagala, David A. Patterson 453

31 Modeling and Evaluation of Fibre Channel Storage Area Networks / Xavier Molero, Federico Silla, Vicente Santonja, JoseDuato 464

VII Parallel I/O Programming Paradigms 475

32 Overview of the MPI-IO Parallel I/O Interface / Peter Corbett, Dror Feitelson, Sam Fineberg, Yarsun Hsu, Bill Nitzberg, Jean-Pierre Prost, Marc Snir, Bernard Traversat, Parkson Wong 477

33 Disk Resident Arrays: An Array-Oriented I/O Library for Out-of-Core Computations / Ian Foster, Jarek Nieplocha 488

34 Active Disks: Programming Model, Algorithms and Evaluation / Anurag Acharya, Mustafa Uysal, Joel Saltz 499

35 Disk-directed I/O for MIMD Multiprocessors / David Kotz 513

VIII Parallel I/O Applications and Environments 537

36 Applications-Driven Parallel I/O / Nicholas P. Galbreath, William D. Gropp, David M. Levine 539

37 Comparing Multimedia Storage Architectures / Benoit A. Gennart, Roger D. Hersch 548

38 High Availability in Clustered Multimedia Servers / Renu Tewari, Daniel M. Dias, Rajat Mukherjee, Harrick M. Vin 555

39 An Architecture for a Scalable High-Performance Digital Library / R. Grossman, X. Qin, W. Xu, H. Hulen, T. Tyler 566

40 I/O Requirements of Scientific Applications: An Evolutionary View / Evgenia Smirni, Ruth A. Aydt, Andrew A. Chien, Daniel A. Reed 576

41 Mitra: A Scalable Continuous Media Server / Shahram Ghandeharizadeh, Roger Zimmermann, Weifeng Shi, Reza Rejaie, Douglas J. Ierardi, Ta-Wei Li 595

IX Emerging Technologies and Future Trends 615

42 An Introduction to the InfiniBand Architecture / Gregory F. Pfister 617

43 XML, Hyper-media, and Fortran I/O / Dror G. Feitelson, Tomer Klainer 633

44 I/O Programming Paradigms: Past and Future / Mahmut Taylan Kandemir, Alok Choudhary 645

45 Scientific Applications using Parallel I/O / Ron Oldfield, David Kotz 655.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0471208094

OCLC:

48768358