PAST storage utility
Encyclopedia
PAST is a large-scale, distributed, persistent storage system based on the Pastry
peer-to-peer
overlay network.
Pastry (DHT)
Pastry is an overlay and routing network for the implementation of a distributed hash table similar to Chord. The key-value pairs are stored in a redundant peer-to-peer network of connected Internet hosts. The protocol is bootstrapped by supplying it with the IP address of a peer already in the...
peer-to-peer
Peer-to-peer
Peer-to-peer computing or networking is a distributed application architecture that partitions tasks or workloads among peers. Peers are equally privileged, equipotent participants in the application...
overlay network.
External links
- A. Rowstron and P. Druschel. Storage management and caching in PAST, a large-scale, persistent peer-to-peer storage utility. 18th ACM SOSP'01, Lake Louise, Alberta, Canada, October 2001.
- PAST homepages: freepastry.org, Microsoft Research
- http://www.cse.lehigh.edu/~brian/course/advanced-networking/reviews/weber-past.html
- http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/abs_free.jsp?arNumber=990064 IEEE