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In this paper, we dicuss the the design and implementation of the PFSLib library wich offers the functionality of Intel's parallel file system PFS. It is intended to be used with parallel programming environments like PVM, P4, and NXLib on workstation clusters. We also present preliminary performance results of PFSLib in comparison to NFS.
This project was partially funded by a research grant from Intel Corporation
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Ludwig, T., Lamberts, S. (1995). PFSLib — A parallel file system for workstation clusters. In: Malyshkin, V. (eds) Parallel Computing Technologies. PaCT 1995. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 964. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-60222-4_114
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