The design of the UNIX operating system
The design of the UNIX operating system
A Clustering Approximation Technique for Queueing Network Models with a Large Number of Chains
IEEE Transactions on Computers
Waiting-time approximations for cyclic-service systems with switchover times
Performance Evaluation
Performance Analysis of Mass Storage Service Alternatives for Distributed Systems
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
A reference model for mass storage systems
Advances in computers
Linearizer: a heuristic algorithm for queueing network models of computing systems
Communications of the ACM
Analytical Performance Modeling of Hierarchical Mass Storage Systems
IEEE Transactions on Computers
Time Constrained Push Strategies in Client-Server Databases
Distributed and Parallel Databases
An approximate performance model of a Unitree mass storage system
MSS '95 Proceedings of the 14th IEEE Symposium on Mass Storage Systems
Resource sharing in performance models
EPEW'07 Proceedings of the 4th European performance engineering conference on Formal methods and stochastic models for performance evaluation
A reliability model of energy-efficient parallel disk systems with data mirroring
International Journal of High Performance Systems Architecture
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The performance analysis of a system in which storage is provided by a file server node on a network of client processors is discussed. The server controls a hierarchy of storage devices, and provides all the necessary file management functions. The clients are large mainframe systems that have their own local storage devices. The movement of files among the various storage levels is managed by a hierarchical storage management system. A closed queuing network model of the client-server storage system is used to analyze the performance of the system for various file movement criteria and to study the tradeoffs between recalling a file and accessing it by a distributed file system. Several network topologies (Ethernet, token ring, channel-to-channel) and their effect on performance are considered.