Andrew: a distributed personal computing environment
Communications of the ACM - The MIT Press scientific computation series
The macroscopic behavior of the TCP congestion avoidance algorithm
ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review
A cost-effective, high-bandwidth storage architecture
Proceedings of the eighth international conference on Architectural support for programming languages and operating systems
Flash code: studying astrophysical thermonuclear flashes
Computing in Science and Engineering
Network attached storage architecture
Communications of the ACM
A case study in application I/O on Linux clusters
Proceedings of the 2001 ACM/IEEE conference on Supercomputing
The Panasas ActiveScale Storage Cluster: Delivering Scalable High Bandwidth Storage
Proceedings of the 2004 ACM/IEEE conference on Supercomputing
BMI: A Network Abstraction Layer for Parallel I/O
IPDPS '05 Proceedings of the 19th IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS'05) - Workshop 9 - Volume 10
SISW '05 Proceedings of the Third IEEE International Security in Storage Workshop
Analysis of iSCSI target software
SNAPI '04 Proceedings of the international workshop on Storage network architecture and parallel I/Os
A comparison of file system workloads
ATEC '00 Proceedings of the annual conference on USENIX Annual Technical Conference
PVFS: a parallel file system for linux clusters
ALS'00 Proceedings of the 4th annual Linux Showcase & Conference - Volume 4
Ceph: a scalable, high-performance distributed file system
OSDI '06 Proceedings of the 7th symposium on Operating systems design and implementation
Scalable performance of the Panasas parallel file system
FAST'08 Proceedings of the 6th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies
O2S2: enhanced object-based virtualized storage
ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review
BlobSeer: how to enable efficient versioning for large object storage under heavy access concurrency
Proceedings of the 2009 EDBT/ICDT Workshops
Prototyping a high-performance low-cost solid-state disk
Proceedings of the 4th Annual International Conference on Systems and Storage
Emulation of object-based storage devices by a virtual machine
ICA3PP'10 Proceedings of the 10th international conference on Algorithms and Architectures for Parallel Processing - Volume Part II
| Hi-index | 0.00 |
As storage systems evolve, the block-based design of today's disks is becoming inadequate. As an alternative, object-based storage devices (OSDs) offer a view where the disk manages data layout and keeps track of various attributes about data objects. By moving functionality that is traditionally the responsibility of the host OS to the disk, it is possible to improve overall performance and simplify management of a storage system. The capabilities of OSDs will also permit performance improvements in parallel file systems, such as further decoupling metadata operations and thus reducing metadata server bottlenecks. In this work we present an implementation of the Parallel Virtual File System (PVFS) integrated with a software emulator of an OSD and describe an infrastructure for client access. Even with the overhead of emulation, performance is comparable to a traditional server-fronted implementation, demonstrating that serverless parallel file systems using OSDs are an achievable goal.