Survey on Scalable File Systems for Cloud Computing Environments

PhD Qualifying Examination


Title: "Survey on Scalable File Systems for Cloud Computing Environments"

by

Mr. Zhonghua Sheng


Abstract:

The scalability issue of the file systems interests us from time to time.
The features of emerging cloud computing paradigm give rise to unique
challenges to the intuitive approach of distributing data. First, different
from scientific computing environments, the cloud computing environments are
relatively uncontrolled. The failure of computing component becomes a norm
as the scale grows, and the computation power and the storage space vary
among individual computing nodes. Second, the consistency of data becomes
more
complex than conventional approaches because an increasing number of
replication mechanisms have been introduced to ensure availability. Then,
the lack of trust has made the data privacy issue highly concerned.
In order to scale up a file system in cloud computing environments, the
issues above need to be solved. In this survey, we comment on some existing
file system approaches, analyze their strengths and weaknesses to decide the
requirements for file systems towards the cloud computing paradigm.


Date:                   Thursday, 7 April 2011

Time:                   10:00 - 12:00 noon

Venue:                  Room 4483
                        lifts 25/26

Committee Members:	Dr. Lin Gu (Supervisor)
                        Dr. Qiong Luo (Chairperson)
 			Prof. Qian Zhang
 			Prof. Lionel Ni



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