{"title":"Renaissance: managing the network computer and its storage requirements","authors":"A. Foster, D. Habermehl","doi":"10.1109/MASS.1991.160196","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MASS.1991.160196","url":null,"abstract":"The authors describe a set of solutions developed to address the storage management problem for networks of workstations and fileservers. Specifically, they describe the implementation of the Renaissance Infinite Storage Manager (ISM). Based on the bitfile client and bitfile server components of the IEEE Mass Storage Reference Model, the network ISM uses a mass storage server as backing store for magnetic disks attached to workstations and workgroup servers on a network. The ISM preserves the transparency of access while the contents of the least recently used storage on the network automatically migrate to the storage server. >","PeriodicalId":158477,"journal":{"name":"[1991] Digest of Papers Eleventh IEEE Symposium on Mass Storage Systems","volume":"185 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1991-10-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115900499","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Volume management by the book: the NAStore Volume Manager","authors":"Bill Ross, J. Richards","doi":"10.1109/MASS.1991.160217","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MASS.1991.160217","url":null,"abstract":"The NAStore Volume Manager provides controlled access to removable media under UNIX. It is compatible with the latest informal consensus of the IEEE Storage System Standards Working Group. The modular design allows it to manage robotic and manual drives of various types in many locations: a UNIX daemon fields requests and passes them to the appropriate 'Repository Controller' based on the medium and location of the volume. At NAS the repositories are a vault and a farm of StorageTek ACS robots. Access permissions are handled analogously to the UNIX file system, with noaccess-read-readwrite separately assignable for owner, group, and world. A suite of user utilities allows volume allocation, mounting, moving, listing, access modification, and deallocation to be performed on the UNIX command line; a programmatic interface allows programs (such as a file migration manager) to accomplish the same functions. Initial testing, operational experience, and possible improvements are discussed.<<ETX>>","PeriodicalId":158477,"journal":{"name":"[1991] Digest of Papers Eleventh IEEE Symposium on Mass Storage Systems","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1991-10-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122617243","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"NASA Earth Observing System Data Information System (EOSDIS)","authors":"B. Kobler, J. Berbert","doi":"10.1109/MASS.1991.160199","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MASS.1991.160199","url":null,"abstract":"EOSDIS is being developed by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to be a comprehensive data and information system providing the Earth science research community with easy, affordable, and reliable access to EOS and other appropriate Earth science data. EOSDIS will archive approximately 2 TBytes of data per day over a 15-year period. The system will be geographically distributed and provide data access to scientists worldwide.<<ETX>>","PeriodicalId":158477,"journal":{"name":"[1991] Digest of Papers Eleventh IEEE Symposium on Mass Storage Systems","volume":"200 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1991-10-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122682286","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"DataMesh-parallel storage systems for the 1990s","authors":"J. Wilkes","doi":"10.1109/MASS.1991.160224","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MASS.1991.160224","url":null,"abstract":"A description is given of DataMesh, a research project with the goal of developing software to maximize the performance of mass storage I/O, while providing high availability, ease of use, and scalability. The DataMesh hardware architecture is that of an array of disk nodes, with each disk having a dedicated 20-MIPS single-chip processor and 8-32 MBytes RAM. The nodes are linked by a fast, reliable, small-area network, and programmed to appear as a single storage server. Phase 1 of the DataMesh project will provide smart disk arrays; phase 2 will expand this to include file systems; and phase 3 will support parallel databases, data searches, and other application-specific functions. The initial target of the work is storage servers for groups of high-powered workstations, although the techniques are applicable to several different problems.<<ETX>>","PeriodicalId":158477,"journal":{"name":"[1991] Digest of Papers Eleventh IEEE Symposium on Mass Storage Systems","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1991-10-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133504048","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Client requirements for a UNIX-based network file-transport utility","authors":"M. Nemanic","doi":"10.1109/MASS.1991.160201","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MASS.1991.160201","url":null,"abstract":"A file-transport utility is being developed at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory to meet the requirements specified by users. It is intended to be useful for general UNIX environments using TCP/IP. It will communicate with FTP demons, a centralized persistence server, and the UniTree storage system. To provide true transparency, a global machine-independent name space, an integrated storage hierarchy, which includes automatic file migration and distributed locking, and quick data transport are required. Efforts in this direction include the development of commercially available, high-performance, high-capacity network peripherals, and attempts to merge network operating systems with archival storage systems.<<ETX>>","PeriodicalId":158477,"journal":{"name":"[1991] Digest of Papers Eleventh IEEE Symposium on Mass Storage Systems","volume":"36 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1991-10-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124476523","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"E-systems Modular Automated Storage System (EMASS) software functionality","authors":"Anthony L. Peterson","doi":"10.1109/MASS.1991.160214","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MASS.1991.160214","url":null,"abstract":"The software functionality of the E-Systems Modular Automated Storage System (EMASS) is described. EMASS is a complete data storage and retrieval system that operates as a large data storage node on a network, servicing client requests over a number of different interfaces. The EMASS server, a CONVEX supercomputer, stores files in an extended UNIX File System. These extensions provide for transparent migration of files onto magnetic tape. EMASS mass storage control software is written in the C programming language and utilizes the INGRES RDBMS to track the files and tapes managed by EMASS.<<ETX>>","PeriodicalId":158477,"journal":{"name":"[1991] Digest of Papers Eleventh IEEE Symposium on Mass Storage Systems","volume":"32 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1991-10-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114745039","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Holostore technology for higher levels of memory hierarchy","authors":"S. Redfield, J. Willenbring","doi":"10.1109/MASS.1991.160228","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MASS.1991.160228","url":null,"abstract":"The potential speed breakthrough for mass storage offered by volume holographic storage technology (Holostore) is discussed. With the I/O (input/output) bottleneck in regards to mass storage currently becoming more and more severe, the timing could not be better for such a technology. First, Holostore technology in general is reviewed, and the nature of the I/O bottleneck is discussed. Then, a specific implementation for mass storage is presented with some recent innovations. Finally, the potential for Holostore technology for the archival level of the memory hierarchy is assessed.<<ETX>>","PeriodicalId":158477,"journal":{"name":"[1991] Digest of Papers Eleventh IEEE Symposium on Mass Storage Systems","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1991-10-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131209641","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A high-performance UNIX network storage server","authors":"S. Ranade","doi":"10.1109/MASS.1991.160219","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MASS.1991.160219","url":null,"abstract":"The author describes the design and prototype testing of a large UNIX-based file server, the File Manager. The primary design aim for the File Manager was to provide network file service at an attractive cost/performance ratio. Economical storage as well as fast, concurrent file transfers to and from the server were essential. It was felt that this goal was best achievable through the selection of multi-vendor components. Particularly notable and/or troublesome integration issues are discussed.<<ETX>>","PeriodicalId":158477,"journal":{"name":"[1991] Digest of Papers Eleventh IEEE Symposium on Mass Storage Systems","volume":"106 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1991-10-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132200490","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"National Media Laboratory","authors":"W. Mularie","doi":"10.1109/MASS.1991.160229","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MASS.1991.160229","url":null,"abstract":"The National Media Laboratory (NML) defines a new model in cooperation between industry and the government. The national lab concept was created in response to the US government awareness that various aspects of critical systems acquisition and support were not being met by the traditional government-contractor relationships. It was recognized that the perspective and access to highly leveraged resources gained from a closer relationship with a consortium of commercially focused, global corporations could benefit many aspects of the government system procurement and support cycle. The NML is discussed with regard to the benefits to industry and government, the organization, continuing tasks, and the critical nature of the NML effort.<<ETX>>","PeriodicalId":158477,"journal":{"name":"[1991] Digest of Papers Eleventh IEEE Symposium on Mass Storage Systems","volume":"8 10","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1991-10-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"113964823","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Future directions of high-speed networks for distributed storage environments","authors":"Gustav S. Christensen, W. Franta, W. Petersen","doi":"10.1109/MASS.1991.160226","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MASS.1991.160226","url":null,"abstract":"The authors discuss possible future directions for high-speed networking in the time frame of the next three to five years. The discussion is based on the authors' experience in the networking business. Both architectural and technology issues are considered. Five subjects expected to be especially significant are covered: cross-point switches, multiple network service paths, integration of Telco standards and services, high technology for networks, and wave division multiplexing for terabit networks.<<ETX>>","PeriodicalId":158477,"journal":{"name":"[1991] Digest of Papers Eleventh IEEE Symposium on Mass Storage Systems","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1991-10-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123790908","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}