| Parallel Virtual File System (PVFS) homepage, http://www.parl.clemson.edu/pvfs, January 2001. |
....or to establish NFS caches to reduce the access time. Better (but more expensive) solutions may be to use the SAN for file I O or to establish a cluster file system (e.g. GFS [12] or an independent storage area network) At PC # we are currently evaluating the Parallel Virtual File System (PVFS) [22] as an alternative to NFS on the hpcLine. We established 8 I O nodes which are not part of the hpcLine cluster. These machines are dual processor PII, 300 MHz with 256 MByte of RAM running RedHat 6.2. The disks are 20 GByte IDE disks. All I O nodes are connected via full duplex 100 MBit Ethernet ....
Parallel Virtual File System (PVFS) homepage, http://www.parl.clemson.edu/pvfs, January 2001.
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