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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 03, 2017
Filed:
Aug. 30, 2012
Bin Fan, Pittsburgh, PA (US);
Asim Kadav, Madison, WI (US);
Edmund Bernard Nightingale, Redmond, WA (US);
Jeremy E. Elson, Seattle, WA (US);
Richard F. Rashid, Prescott, AZ (US);
James W. Mickens, Bellevue, WA (US);
Bin Fan, Pittsburgh, PA (US);
Asim Kadav, Madison, WI (US);
Edmund Bernard Nightingale, Redmond, WA (US);
Jeremy E. Elson, Seattle, WA (US);
Richard F. Rashid, Prescott, AZ (US);
James W. Mickens, Bellevue, WA (US);
MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
The subject disclosure is directed towards one or more parallel storage components for parallelizing block-level input/output associated with remote file data. Based upon a mapping scheme, the file data is partitioned into a plurality of blocks in which each may be equal in size. A translator component of the parallel storage may determine a mapping between the plurality of blocks and a plurality of storage nodes such that at least a portion of the plurality of blocks is accessible in parallel. Such a mapping, for example, may place each block in a different storage node allowing the plurality of blocks to be retrieved simultaneously and in its entirety.