High Performance Mass Storage and Parallel I/O Technologies and Applications

Due to the growth of Internet-driven applications, issues such as storage capacity and access speed have become critical in the design of today's computer systems Book fills the need for a readily-accessible single reference source on the subject of high-performance, large scale storage and delivery systems Contains the latest information and future directions of disk arrays and parallel I/OA Wiley-IEEE Press Publication

HAI JIN is a professor of computer science at Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China. He holds both a B.A. and M.S. degree in computer science, and a Ph.D. in electrical and electronics engineering from the same University. He is currently a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering at the University of Hong Kong in addition to being a visiting scholar at the Internet and Cluster Computing Laboratory at the University of Southern California. Dr. Jin has coauthored three books and published more than 50 papers in international journals and conferences.