Uppuluri, Prem; Singh, Sachin; Joshi, Uday
RemoteFS: Accessing remote file systems for desktop grid computing
APPLIED COMPUTING 2007, VOL 1 AND 2, 1203-1204, 2007

We propose a remote file system for use in desktop grid applications. The proposed system provides programs with the ability to query and update files on remote machines without requiring any changes to the program code. The system (a) generates a profile of the program file operations and (b) uses the profile to implement collective and pre-fetched I/O.

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