Building Distributed, Wide-Area Applications with WheelFS

@incollection{citeulike:2806576, abstract = {It is a challenge to build applications that need to share data and are distributed across hundreds or thousands of computers in a wide-area network (e.g., PlanetLab or on a Grid). In order to cope with high latency, throughput bottlenecks, and temporary failures, such applications typically implement their own storage plan or use special-purpose storage solutions (e.g., DISC, Globus, Carbonite, etc.). Inspired by the success of the Google File System for cluster applications, this proposal investigates whether a general-purpose wide-area file system could simplify building distributed applications. In particular, this talk presents a preliminary design, called WheelFS. WheelFS’s goal is to ease the development of distributed applications such as cooperative Web caches, data-intensive Grid applications, and PlanetLab measurements, perhaps reducing the storage management code to a simple script around the application’s core logic. Towards this goal, WheelFS adopts many features from existing file systems, and adds two new ones: semantic cues, and write-locally-read-globally. This talk will also discuss several specific applications that can potentially benefit from using WheelFS.}, author = {Kaashoek, M. }, citeulike-article-id = {2806576}, doi = {10.1007/978-3-540-68083-3\_2}, journal = {Advances in Grid and Pervasive Computing}, keywords = {ict, interoperability, macro, p2p-network}, pages = {2}, posted-at = {2008-05-17 09:03:38}, priority = {2}, title = {Building Distributed, Wide-Area Applications with WheelFS}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-68083-3\_2}, year = {2008} }

TY - CHAP ID - citeulike:2806576 L3 - citeulike-article-id:2806576 TI - Building Distributed, Wide-Area Applications with WheelFS JF - Advances in Grid and Pervasive Computing SP - 2 EP - 2 N2 - It is a challenge to build applications that need to share data and are distributed across hundreds or thousands of computers in a wide-area network (e.g., PlanetLab or on a Grid). In order to cope with high latency, throughput bottlenecks, and temporary failures, such applications typically implement their own storage plan or use special-purpose storage solutions (e.g., DISC, Globus, Carbonite, etc.). Inspired by the success of the Google File System for cluster applications, this proposal investigates whether a general-purpose wide-area file system could simplify building distributed applications. In particular, this talk presents a preliminary design, called WheelFS. WheelFS’s goal is to ease the development of distributed applications such as cooperative Web caches, data-intensive Grid applications, and PlanetLab measurements, perhaps reducing the storage management code to a simple script around the application’s core logic. Towards this goal, WheelFS adopts many features from existing file systems, and adds two new ones: semantic cues, and write-locally-read-globally. This talk will also discuss several specific applications that can potentially benefit from using WheelFS. KW - ict KW - interoperability KW - macro KW - p2p-network AU - Kaashoek, M PY - 2008/// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-68083-3_2 ER -