Related Work
ISTORE extends several recent research efforts
- Intelligent/Active Disks, NASD (UCB, UCSB, CMU)
- used as a component in ISTORE; ISTORE adds a global runtime system, introspection, and self-maintenance
- network service appliances (NetApp, Snap!, Qube, Swarm, ...)
- ISTORE adds the idea of a meta-appliance & self-maintenance
- self-maintaining systems (Sun Project StoreX, Tandem, ...)
- extensible operating systems (SPIN, Exokernel, VINO, Scout,...)
- domain-specific languages (OGI Microlanguages, Prolac, VHDL,...)
- adaptive systems (HP AutoRAID, MS AutoAdmin, MS Millennium)
- plug-and-play system construction (Sun Jini, PC Plug&Play, ...)
ISTORE leverages Berkeley’s experience with reliable, large, distributed storage systems and applications
- RAID, Tertiary Disk, XFS, Sprite, NOW, PostGres/GiST, ...