Data processing: database and file management or data structures – File management – File systems
Reexamination Certificate
2002-10-01
2010-10-05
Rones, Charles (Department: 2164)
Data processing: database and file management or data structures
File management
File systems
C707S827000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07809774
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.
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Isaila Florin
Tichy Walter
Kenyon & Kenyon LLP
Khoshnoodi Fariborz
Partec Cluster Competence Center GmbH
Rones Charles
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