Project Leader

• Jesus Labarta: (jesus@ac.upc.es)

• T. Cortes
• S. Girona

Project Description

The goal of this project is to design a new  generation  in  cooperative caches  where  physical  locality  is not the main  issue to  achieve  a high-performance    cache.   In   this   new   cache,   the   coherence, fault-tolerance  and  load-distribution  problems  will be  solved  in an efficient  way.  Finally  we will also  present  aggressive  prefetching algorithms that take advantage of cooperative caches.

Relevant publications

• PAFS: a new Generation in Cooperative Caching

 T. Cortes and J. Labarta
 International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Processing Techniques and Applications (PDPTA'98)
 Las Vegas, Nev, July 1998
 
• Cooperative Caching and Prefetching for Parallel/Distributed File Systems

 T. Cortes
 PhD Thesis
 http://www.ac.upc.es/homes/toni/thesis.html
 
• Design Issues of a Cooperative Cache with no Coherence Problems

 T. Cortes, S. Girona and J. Labarta
 5th workshop on I/O in Parallel and Distributed
 Systems (IOPADS'97)
 San Jose, CA, November 1997
 ftp://ftp.ac.upc.es/pub/reports/DAC/1997/UPC-DAC-1997-84.ps.Z
 
• Avoiding the Cache-Coherence Problem in Parallel/Distribute File Systems

 T. Cortes, S. Girona and J. Labarta
 High Performance Computing and Networking (HPCN'97)
 Vienna, Austria, April 1997
 ftp://ftp.ac.upc.es/pub/reports/CEPBA/1996/UPC-CEPBA-1996-13.ps.Z
 
• PACA: A Cooperative File-System Cache for Parallel Machines

 T. Cortes, S. Girona and J. Labarta
 2nd International Euro-Par Conference (Euro-Par'96)
 Lyon, France, August 1996
 ftp://ftp.ac.upc.es/pub/reports/CEPBA/1996/UPC-CEPBA-1996-7.ps.Z
 
• PACA: A Cooperative File-System Cache

 T. Cortes, s. Girona and J. Labarta
 VII Jornadas de Paralelismo
 Santiago de Compostela, Spain, September 1996