Scientific applications often need to access remote file systems. Because of slow networks and large data size, however, remote I/O can become an even more serious performance bot...
Jonghyun Lee, Robert B. Ross, Rajeev Thakur, Xiaos...
This paper presents Clusterfile, a parallel file system that provides parallel file access on a cluster of computers. Existing parallel file systems offer little control over matc...
Collaboration over the Internet depends on the ability of the members of a group to exchange data in a secure yet unobtrusive manner. WebDAVA is a system that allows users to deļ¬...
Alexander Levine, Vassilis Prevelakis, John Ioanni...
Workstations typically depend on remote servers accessed over a network for such services as mail, printing, storing files, booting, and time. The availability of these remote ser...
Andy Hisgen, Andrew Birrell, Timothy Mann, Michael...
We describe our work in implementing a wide-area distributed file system for the NSF TeraGrid. The system, called XUFS, allows private distributed name spaces to be created for tr...