A new multiagent based architecture for high performance I/O inclusters

摘要

This paper presents MAPFS, a MultiAgent Parallel File System forclusters. MAPFS has been conceived as a client able to interact withdifferent existing traditional or distributed servers and provide themthe parallel I/O characteristics. Therefore, MAPFS allows take advantageof the use of the parallelism in clusters of workstations. MAPFS definesa multiagent architecture that defines the storage group concept, as aset of servers that form a group to support the parallel I/O for MAPFS.MAPFS offers a file system interface that include traditionaloperations, advanced and collective operations, and fault tolerance andcaching operations