BIB-VERSION:: CS-TR-v2.0
ID:: UCB//S2K-91-02
ENTRY:: March 4, 1994 
TITLE:: High Performance Network and Channel-Based Storage
DATE:: 
AUTHOR:: Katz, Randy H. 
PAGES:: 46 
ABSTRACT:: In the traditional mainframe-centered view of a 
computer system, storage devices are coupled to the system
through complex hardware subsystems called I/O channels.
With the dramatic shift towards workstation-based computing,
and its associated client/server model of computation, 
storage facilities are now found attached to file servers
and distributed throughout the network. In this paper, we 
discuss the underlying technology trends that are leading to
high performance network-based storage, namely advances in
networks, storage devices, and I/O controller and server
architectures. We review several commercial systems and research
prototypes that are leading to a new approach to high performance
computing based on network-attached storage. 
RETRIEVAL:: postscript (in all.ps)
END:: UCB//S2K-91-02