Recent advances in multicasting over the Internet present new opportunities for improving communication performance in clusters of workstations. The standard IP multicast, however...
This paper compares and evaluates the multicast performance of two of the most widely deployed System-Area Networks (SANs), Dolphin’s Scalable Coherent Interface (SCI) and Myric...
A “Storage-Area Network” (SAN) comprises computers (“Initiators”), storage “block devices” (“Targets”), and a Controller(s). Most SANs use the SCSI protocol over v...
Current technology trends make it possible to build communication networks that can support high performance distributed computing. This paper describes issues in the design of a ...
Thomas E. Anderson, Susan S. Owicki, James B. Saxe...
We present HSAN - a hybrid storage area network, which uses both in-band (like NFS [13]) and out-of-band virtualization (like SAN FS [10]) access models. HSAN uses hybrid servers ...