The Internet BackPlane Protocol: A Study in Resource Sharing
Alessandro Bassi , Micah Beck, Graham Fagg, Terry Moore, James S. Plank, Martin Swany , Rich Wolski

Second IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid (CCGRID 2002), Berlin, Germany, May, 2002

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Abstract:
In this work we present the Internet Backplane Protocol (IBP), a middleware created to allow the sharing of storage resources, implemented as part of the network fabric. IBP allows an application to control intermediate data staging operations explicitly. As IBP follows a very simple philosophy, very similar to the Internet Protocol, and the resulting semantic might be too weak for some applications, we introduce the exNode, a data structure that aggregates storage allocations on the Internet.

Citation Info:

Authors:	Alessandro Bassi , Micah Beck, Graham Fagg, Terry Moore, James S. Plank, Martin Swany , Rich Wolski
Title:	The Internet BackPlane Protocol: A Study in Resource Sharing
Conference:	Second IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid (CCGRID 2002)
Year:	2002
Month:	May
Address:	Berlin, Germany
Where:	http://loci.eecs.utk.edu/publications/2002_IBP_Resource_Sharing.php