The Message Driven File System: A Network Accessible File System for Fine-Grain Message Passing Multicomputers

Abstract

This thesis describes an experimental message-driven file system and its implementation on a 512-computer J-machine with thirty-two, 402Mb SCSI disks. The J-machine [5] is an architectural experiment which focuses on the evaluation of hardware support for concurrent execution and active messages. The hardware is designed to scale to many thousands of fine-grain nodes, each of which has a relatively small local memory (1Mb) but fast communications. Active messages are supported directly through the hardware process model and integrated low latency messaging model.

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Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 01, 1996
Accession Number
ADA448699

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  • Yair Zadik

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  • California Institute of Technology

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