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To obtain well scalable services in distributed and parallel systems, critical parts of these services must be distributed to avoid bottlenecks, thus reducing server processing load and consumed network bandwidth. This work investigates the distribution of the file service by distributed block-level file caches, also called client caches. Fixed-size client caches with various cache coherency schemes are compared with a server cache and a variable-size client cache model, in order to reveal useful caching distribution concepts.
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Klauser, A., Posch, R. (1994). Distributed file caching in parallel architectures utilizing high speed networks. In: Gentzsch, W., Harms, U. (eds) High-Performance Computing and Networking. HPCN-Europe 1994. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 797. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-57981-8_91
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