Document Type

Conference Paper

Publication Date

6-1993

Publication Title

Proceedings of the 1993 DAGS/PC Symposium

Department

Department of Computer Science

Abstract

Several algorithms for parallel disk systems have appeared in the literature recently, and they are asymptotically optimal in terms of the number of disk accesses. Scalable systems with parallel disks must be able to run these algorithms. We present for the first time a list of capabilities that must be provided by the system to support these optimal algorithms: control over declustering, querying about the configuration, independent I/O, and turning off parity, file caching, and prefetching. We summarize recent theoretical and empirical work that justifies the need for these capabilities. In addition, we sketch an organization for a parallel file interface with low-level primitives and higher-level operations.

Original Citation

Thomas H. Cormen and David Kotz. Integrating Theory and Practice in Parallel File Systems. In Proceedings of the 1993 DAGS/PC Symposium, June 1993.

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