Scalable Distributed Metadata Server Based on Nonblocking Transactions

Metadata performance scalability is critically important in high-performance computing when accessing many small files from millions of clients. This paper proposes a design of a scalable distributed metadata server, PPMDS, for parallel file systems using multiple key-value servers. In PPMDS, hierar...

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Main Authors: Kohei Hiraga, Osamu Tatebe, Hideyuki Kawashima
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Graz University of Technology 2020-01-01
Series:Journal of Universal Computer Science
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Online Access:https://lib.jucs.org/article/23991/download/pdf/