POSTER: MemFS: An in-memory runtime file system with symmetrical data distribution
Alexandru Uta, Andreea Sandu, Thilo Kielmann · 2014
MemFS is a fully-symmetrical, in-memory distributed runtime file system. Its design is based on uniformly distributing file stripes across the storage nodes belonging to an application by means of a distributed hash function, purposefully sacrificing data locality for balancing both network traffic and memory consumption. This way, reading and writing files can benefit from full network bisection bandwidth, while data distribution is balanced across the storage servers.