The Design and Analysis of A Tightly Coupled Hypercube File System

Abstract

The architectural design and analysis of a tightly coupled distributed hypercube file system are presented. The file system is composed of an 1/0 organization and a software interface. The analysis and design are made by varying a number of parameters for the matrix multiplication application on a hypercube simulator. The parameters form a three dimensional test space : Parameters of the 1/0 organization, the software interface and the application. Performance results are presented for a hypercube with and without a distributed file system.