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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 05, 2010
Filed:
Oct. 01, 2002
Walter Tichy, Karlsruhe, DE;
Florin Isaila, Karlsruhe, DE;
Walter Tichy, Karlsruhe, DE;
Florin Isaila, Karlsruhe, DE;
Partec Cluster Competence Center GmbH, Munich, DE;
Abstract
A distributed file system including a plurality of compute nodes and a plurality of input/output (I/O) nodes connected by an interconnection network wherein the system is adapted to use a common data representation for both physical and logical partitions of a file stored in the system and wherein the partitions are linearly addressable. Also provided is a method of operating a distributed file system including a plurality of input/output (I/O) nodes and a plurality of compute nodes, the method including partitioning a file into a plurality of subfiles distributed across a plurality of I/O nodes; logically partitioning a file by setting a view on it, computing mappings between a linear space of a file and a linear space of a subfile, computing the intersection between a view and a subfile, and performing data operations.