@InProceedings{si-woong:cluster, author = {Jang Si-Woong and Chung Ki-Dong and Sam Coleman}, title = {Design and Implementation of a Network-Wide Concurrent File System in a Workstation Cluster}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the Fourteenth IEEE Symposium on Mass Storage Systems}, year = {1995}, month = {September}, pages = {239--245}, publisher = {IEEE Computer Society Press}, URL = {http://www.computer.org/conferen/mss95/woong/woong.htm}, keywords = {mass storage, cluster computing, distributed file system, parallel I/O, pario-bib}, abstract = {We estimate the performance of a network-wide concurrent file system implemented using conventional disks as disk arrays. Tests were carried out on both single system and network-wide environments. On single systems, a file was split across several disks to test the performance of file I/O operations. We concluded that performance was proportional to the number of disks, up to four, on a system with high computing power. Performance of a system with low computing power, however, did not increase, even with more than two disks. When we split a file across disks in a network-wide system called the Network-wide Concurrent File System (N-CFS), we found performance similar to or slightly higher than that of disk arrays on single systems. Since file access through N-CFS is transparent, this system enables traditional disks on single and networked systems to be used as disk arrays for I/O intensive jobs.} }