Thats a unique idea.You should consider the following idea to enhance your idea so that it would impact uniquely: A cluster of PCs can be seen as a collection of networked low cost disks; such a collection can be operated by proper software so as to provide the abstraction of a single, larger block device. By adding suitable data redundancy, such a disk collection as a whole could act as single, highly fault tolerant, distributed RAID device, providing capacity and reliability along with the convenient price/performance typical of commodity clusters.  report about the design and performance of DRAID, a distributed RAID prototype running on a Gigabit Ethernet cluster of PCs. DRAID offers storage services under a single I/O space (SIOS) block device abstraction. The SIOS feature implies that the storage space is accessible by each of the stations in the cluster, rather than throughout one or few end-points, with a potentially higher aggregate I/O bandwidth and better suitability to parallel I/O.
['A. Di Marco', 'Giovanni Chiola', 'Giuseppe Ciaccio']
I am writing a research paper on a idea Using a Gigabit Ethernet cluster as a distributed disk array with multiple fault tolerance
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