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Large-scale, data-intensive computing requires a sophisticated technology to be integrated with distributed file systems to provide clients with reliable and scalable high-performance accesses to the stored data. The clients physically share storage devices connected via a network like GigaEthernet or Fibre Channel and, on those clients, distributed file systems take responsibility for providing coordinated accesses and consistent views of shared data. In such a distributed computing environment, one of the major issues in achieving substantial I/O performance and scalability is to build an efficient locking protocol. In this paper, we present a distributed locking protocol that enables multiple nodes to simultaneously write their data to distinct data portions of a file, while providing the consistent view of client cached data. We conclude with an evaluation of the performance of our locking protocol.
This work was supported in part by a Seoul R&BD program.
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No, J., Park, C.W., Park, S.S. (2006). Using Data Consistency Protocol in Distributed Computing Environments. In: Guo, M., Yang, L.T., Di Martino, B., Zima, H.P., Dongarra, J., Tang, F. (eds) Parallel and Distributed Processing and Applications. ISPA 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4330. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11946441_57
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