A file system design with a large number of disks, each with itsown local processing power, is proposed. This organization allowsconcurrent access to many records of a file, thus providing a speedupproportional to the number of disks. The focus is on the structure of asingle file. Care is taken to preserve the file's integrity, as severalprocesses are contending for it from different processing elements(PEs). A file structure, based on the Blink-tree, amodification of the well-known B+ tree, is introduced. Thisstructure is distributed among the disk-nodes, the PEs that are equippedwith disks. Performance figures are derived by analytic and simulationmethods
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