Document Type

Conference Paper

Publication Date

12-1991

Publication Title

Proceedings of the 1991 IEEE Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing (SPDP)

Department

Department of Computer Science

Abstract

Improvements in the processing speed of multiprocessors are outpacing improvements in the speed of disk hardware. Parallel disk I/O subsystems have been proposed as one way to close the gap between processor and disk speeds. Such parallel disk systems require parallel file system software to avoid performance-limiting bottlenecks. We discuss cache management techniques that can be used in a parallel file system implementation. We examine several writeback policies, and give results of experiments that test their performance.

DOI

10.1109/SPDP.1991.218296

Original Citation

David Kotz and Carla Schlatter Ellis. Caching and Writeback Policies in Parallel File Systems. In Proceedings of the 1991 IEEE Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing (SPDP), December 1991. DOI 10.1109/SPDP.1991.218296.

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