A Fibre Channel Based Architecture for Internet Multimedia Server Clusters

ed to the one shown in Figure 5 (a), where the processor block on the left hand of the interconnect corresponds to the AFS server, Storage Node, VFS server, etc, For ease of discussion, in the remaining of the paper, we use a unified term "storage node" to refer to these nodes. The main purpose for a storage node in a cluster is to manage storage devices attached to it and provide data services to other nodes in the cluster. Some of these storage nodes use full-blown general purpose machines, such as SUN Sparc 10 and IBM RS/6000, and some others use custom designed special purpose storage control systems. The processor blocks on the right hand side of the interconnect correspond to "server node" that receive and service the requests from external Web clients. Interconnect Network Interconnect Network Ether FDDI ATM SP-2 Myrine