High Performance Network and Channel-Based Storage

Randy H. Katz

EECS Department
University of California, Berkeley
Technical Report No. UCB/CSD-91-650
September 1991

http://www2.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/TechRpts/1991/CSD-91-650.pdf

In the traditional mainframe-centered view of a computer system, storage devices are coupled to the system through complex hardware subsystems called I/O channels. With the dramatic shift towards workstation-based computing, and its associated client/server model of computation, storage facilities are now found attached to file servers and distributed throughout the network. In this paper, we discuss the underlying trends that are leading to high performance network-based storage, namely advances in networks, storage devices, and I/O controller and server architectures. We review several commercial systems and research prototypes that are leading to a new approach to high performance computing based on network-attached storage.

Key Words and Phrases: High Performance Computing, Computer Networks, File and Storage Servers, Secondary and Tertiary Storage Device

BibTeX citation:

@techreport{Katz:CSD-91-650,
    Author = {Katz, Randy H.},
    Title = {High Performance Network and Channel-Based Storage},
    Institution = {EECS Department, University of California, Berkeley},
    Year = {1991},
    Month = {Sep},
    URL = {http://www2.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/TechRpts/1991/6385.html},
    Number = {UCB/CSD-91-650},
    Abstract = {In the traditional mainframe-centered view of a computer system, storage devices are coupled to the system through complex hardware subsystems called I/O channels. With the dramatic shift towards workstation-based computing, and its associated client/server model of computation, storage facilities are now found attached to file servers and distributed throughout the network. In this paper, we discuss the underlying trends that are leading to high performance network-based storage, namely advances in networks, storage devices, and I/O controller and server architectures. We review several commercial systems and research prototypes that are leading to a new approach to high performance computing based on network-attached storage.  <p>Key Words and Phrases: High Performance Computing, Computer Networks, File and Storage Servers, Secondary and Tertiary Storage Device}
}

EndNote citation:

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