Separating Abstractions from Resources in a Tactical Storage System

ng Abstractions from Resources in a Tactical Storage System Douglas Thain† , Sander Klous∗ , Justin Wozniak† , Paul Brenner† , Aaron Striegel† , Jesus Izaguirre† † - University of Notre Dame, Department of Computer Science and Engineering ∗ - National Institute for Nuclear and High Energy Physics, The Netherlands Sharing data and storage space in a distributed system remains a difficult task for ordinary users, who are constrained to the fixed abstractions and resources provided by administrators. To remedy this situation, we introduce the concept of a tactical storage system (TSS) that separates storractions from storage resources, leaving users free to reconfigure, and destroy abstractions as their needs change. In this paper, we describe how a TSS can proariety of filesystem and database abstractions for unmodified applications without requiring special privileges or kernel changes. A TSS provides performance competitive with NFS for single clients and also scal...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2005
• Where: SC
• Authors: Douglas Thain, Sander Klous, Justin M. Wozniak, Paul Brenner, Aaron Striegel, Jesús A. Izaguirre
• Keywords: Abstractions, Applied Computing, Notre Dame, SC 2005, Tactical Storage