An Efficient Network Interface for the RAID-II File Server

Srinivasan Seshan

EECS Department
University of California, Berkeley
Technical Report No. UCB/CSD-93-769
August 1993

http://www2.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/TechRpts/1993/CSD-93-769.pdf

Distributed systems in use today depend heavily on network communications between clients and servers. In this report, we describe the design and implementation of the network architecture (hardware, software and protocols) of the RAID-II system. RAID-II is a high speed network file server connected to an UltraNetwork. In order to support high bandwidth network transfers with the RAID-II server, we partitioned the networking software among the various processors in the system. Measurements of the system show that the RAID-II server can sustain 21 MB/s of data bandwidth to the Ultranet.


BibTeX citation:

@techreport{Seshan:CSD-93-769,
    Author = {Seshan, Srinivasan},
    Title = {An Efficient Network Interface for the RAID-II File Server},
    Institution = {EECS Department, University of California, Berkeley},
    Year = {1993},
    Month = {Aug},
    URL = {http://www2.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/TechRpts/1993/5255.html},
    Number = {UCB/CSD-93-769},
    Abstract = {Distributed systems in use today depend heavily on network communications between clients and servers. In this report, we describe the design and implementation of the network architecture (hardware, software and protocols) of the RAID-II system. RAID-II is a high speed network file server connected to an UltraNetwork. In order to support high bandwidth network transfers with the RAID-II server, we partitioned the networking software among the various processors in the system. Measurements of the system show that the RAID-II server can sustain 21 MB/s of data bandwidth to the Ultranet.}
}

EndNote citation:

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%T An Efficient Network Interface for the RAID-II File Server
%I EECS Department, University of California, Berkeley
%D 1993
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