@InProceedings{hwang:raid-x,
  author = {Kai Hwang and Hai Jin and Roy Ho},
  title = {{RAID-x}: A New Distributed Disk Array for {I/O}-Centric Cluster
  Computing},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the Ninth IEEE International Symposium on High
  Performance Distributed Computing},
  year = {2000},
  month = {August},
  pages = {279--287},
  publisher = {IEEE Computer Society Press},
  address = {Pittsburgh, PA},
  later = {hwang:braid-x},
  URL = {http://www.computer.org/proceedings/hpdc/0783/07830279abs.htm},
  keywords = {parallel I/O, disk array, disk striping, RAID, pario-bib},
  abstract = {A new RAID-x (redundant array of inexpensive disks at level x)
  architecture is presented for distributed I/O processing on a serverless
  cluster of computers. The RAID-x architecture is based on a new concept of
  orthogonal striping and mirroring (OSM) across all distributed disks in the
  cluster. The primary advantages of this OSM approach lie in: (1) a
  significant improvement in parallel I/O bandwidth, (2) hiding disk mirroring
  overhead in the background, and (3) greatly enhanced scalability and
  reliability in cluster computing applications. All claimed advantages are
  substantiated with benchmark performance results on the Trojans cluster built
  at USC in 1999. Throughout the paper, we discuss the issues of scalable I/O
  performance, enhanced system reliability, and striped checkpointing on
  distributed RAID-x in a serverless cluster environment.}
}