A proof-of-concept implementation of persistence in a hierarchical storage system
- Illinois Univ., Chicago, IL (United States). Lab. for Advanced Computing
- Argonne National Lab., IL (United States). High Energy Physics Div.
The concept of providing transparent access to a collection of files in a mass storage system is a familiar one. The goal of this project was to investigate the feasibility of providing similar access to a collection of persistent, complex objects. We describe an architecture for interfacing a persistent store of complex objects to a hierarchical storage system. Persistent object stores support the uniform creation, storage, and access of complex objects, regardless of their lifetimes. In other words, a mechanism is provided so that persistent objects outlive the processes which create them and can be accessed in a uniform manner by other processes. We validated this architecture by implementing a proof-of-concept system and testing the system on two stores of data. These tests indicate that this architecture supports the creation. storage and access of very large persistent object stores.
- Research Organization:
- Argonne National Lab., IL (United States). High Energy Physics Div.
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE, Washington, DC (United States); National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Washington, DC (United States)
- DOE Contract Number:
- W-31109-ENG-38
- OSTI ID:
- 10145578
- Report Number(s):
- ANL-HEP-CP-92-100; CONF-930461-2; ON: DE93009959; CNN: Grant NAG2-513
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: 12. IEEE symposium on mass storage systems,Monterey, CA (United States),25 Apr 1993; Other Information: PBD: [1992]
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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