High Availability Access to I/O Devices in a Cluster Environment
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1997-05
Authors
Hill, Jimmy R.
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Abstract
Combining a system area network computer system architecture with a single system image cluster operating system offers an opportunity to increase the availability to I/O devices in the system. This paper describes such a system based on Tandem’s Integrity S4000 server and Transparent Network Computing extensions to NonStop-UX, Tandem’s highly available version of UNIX System V Release 4.2. This system is then used as the basis of a proposed design which describes a method to provide a higher degree of availability to I/O devices by providing for the fail-over of their controlling entity.
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computer input-output equipment, computer network architectures, distributed operating systems, computers
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Hill, J.R. (1997). High availability access to I/O devices in a cluster environment (Unpublished thesis). Southwest Texas State University, San Marcos, Texas.