A distributed parallel storage architecture and its potential application within EOSDIS

Conference · Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 1995

OSTI ID:69322

Johnston, W E; Tierney, B ^[1]; Feuquay, J; Butzer, T ^[2]

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1. Lawrence Berkeley Lab., CA (United States)
2. EROS Data Center/Hughes STX, Sioux Falls, SD (United States)

We describe the architecture, implementation, use, and potential use of a scale, high-performance, distributed-parallel data storage system developed in the ARPA funded MAGIC gigabit testbed. A collection of wide area distributed disk servers operate in parallel to provide logical block level access to large data sets. Operated primarily as a network-based cache, the architecture supports cooperation among independently owned resources to provide fast, large-scale, on-demand storage to support data handling, simulation, and computation.

• Research Organization: Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE, Washington, DC (United States); Department of Defense, Washington, DC (United States)
• DOE Contract Number: AC03-76SF00098
• OSTI ID: 69322
• Report Number(s): LBL-36680; CONF-9503106-2; ON: DE95012325
• Resource Relation: Conference: Goddard conference on mass storage and technolgies, College Park, MD (United States), 28-30 Mar 1995; Other Information: PBD: Jan 1995
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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99 MATHEMATICS
COMPUTERS
INFORMATION SCIENCE
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LAW
MISCELLANEOUS
PARALLEL PROCESSING
MEMORY MANAGEMENT
DISTRIBUTED DATA PROCESSING
COMPUTER NETWORKS
PERFORMANCE
COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE