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A Grid computing environment allows forming Virtual Organizations (VOs) to aggregate and share resources. We present a VO File System (VOFS) which is a VO-aware distributed file system that allows VO members to share files. VOFS supports access and location transparency by maintaining a common file namespace, which is decentralized in order to improve robustness. VOFS includes a P2P system of file servers, a VO membership service and a policy and role based security mechanism. VOFS can be mounted to a local file system in order to access files using POSIX file API. VOFS can operate in a dynamic Grid environment (e.g. desktop Grids) since it tolerates unplanned resource arrival and departure (churn) while maintaining a single uniform namespace. It supports transparent disconnected operations that allow the user to work on files while being disconnected.
This research is supported by the FP6 Project Grid4All funded by the European Commission (Contract IST-2006-034567).
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Lindbäck, L., Vlassov, V., Mokarizadeh, S., Violino, G. (2010). Churn Tolerant Virtual Organization File System for Grids. In: Wyrzykowski, R., Dongarra, J., Karczewski, K., Wasniewski, J. (eds) Parallel Processing and Applied Mathematics. PPAM 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6068. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-14403-5_21
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