Connecting Disk Arrays Directly to the Grid
F. Z. Wang, Sining Wu, Yu Deng, Na Helian, Steve Thompson, Ian G. Johnson, D. Milward, R. Maddock, Yike Guo, Jean Bacon, J. Xiong, N. Sun · 2006
We have historically seen Network-attached Storage (NAS) replacing traditional server-attached storage in most cases. The concept of developing the grid-attached storage microkernel is offloading most of server functionality in Linux and Globus. A grid-attached storage appliance has a processor, a microkernel, and file I/O protocols. The grid-attached storage appliances can be deployed across the Grid platform providing FTP services to end users and grid-enabled applications. The technique of parallel streams is implemented in GridFTP by dividing the data to be transferred into N portions and transferring each portion with a separate TCP connection.