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SoapFS: A Multiplatform File System

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Distributed computer applications usually need processes that allow them to retrieve, store, and share data in a suitable way. As a consequence, file systems become a basic concern for these kinds of applications. Typical file systems have been designed on a computer network infrastructure whose communication and data exchange support is homogeneous. The Internet encourages the construction of file systems, which deal with heterogeneous computer platforms. This work presents SoapFS, a file system that is able to manage information in a heterogeneous environment such as the Internet. This is possible because it is based on technologies like RPC-XML and SOAP. This paper shows how a set of functions available in SoapFS allows the development of robust and heterogeneous distributed applications that involve remote data retrieval and storage. SoapFS shows competitive performance compared with popular file systems and it can connect different file systems working together like a one virtual file system.

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  1. Centro Nacional de Investigación y Desarrollo Tecnológico (CENIDET), Interior Internado Palmira S/N, Cuernavaca, Morelos, 62490, México

    Víctor J. Sosa, Rodolfo Pazos, Juan G. González, Santos Cáceres & Mario Guillen

  2. Instituto Tecnológico de Ciudad Madero, 1o. de Mayo y Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz S/N, Ciudad Madero, Tamaulipas, 89440, México

    Laura Cruz

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  1. Department of Computer Science, University of Calgary, 2500 University Drive N.W., T2N 1N4, Calgary, AB, Canada

    Marina L. Gavrilova

  2. Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Perugia, via Vanvitelli, 1, I-06123, Perugia, Italy

    Osvaldo Gervasi

  3. William Norris Professor, Head of the Computer Science and Engineering Department, University of Minnesota, USA

    Vipin Kumar

  4. OptimaNumerics Ltd., Cathedral House, 23-31 Waring Street, BT1 2DX, Belfast, UK

    C. J. Kenneth Tan

  5. Clayton School of IT, Monash University, 3800, Clayton, Australia

    David Taniar

  6. Department of Chemistry, University of Perugia, Via Elce di Sotto, 8, I-06123, Perugia, Italy

    Antonio Laganá

  7. School of Computing, Soongsil University, Seoul, Korea

    Youngsong Mun

  8. School of Information and Communication Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University, Korea

    Hyunseung Choo

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Sosa, V.J., Pazos, R., González, J.G., Cáceres, S., Cruz, L., Guillen, M. (2006). SoapFS: A Multiplatform File System. In: Gavrilova, M.L., et al. Computational Science and Its Applications - ICCSA 2006. ICCSA 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3981. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11751588_3

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