Clients now have large local disks available to them, and fast local bandwidth. The issue, in particular in scientific applications with large datasets, is in the speed of the transport mechanism between the client and the server hosting the data. In a cluster environment, where a large number of clients are collaborating on processing the same read-only data, it shouldn't be necessary for each client to individually fetch the data from the server - instead a single client should be able to perform the data fetch, and share the results with all of the other clients in the cluster. This is a challenging project, developing a design and proof of concept for entirely new functionality. Skills learned will include the principals of peer-to-peer filesystems, developing cluster filesystems and kernel programming
--- [[SimonWilkinson]] - 06 Mar 2010 ~~~~
+-- Simon Wilkinson - 06 Mar 2010 ~~~~
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