PAST is a large-scale, distributed, persistent storage system based on the
Pastry
Pastry is baked food made with a dough of flour, water and shortening (solid fats, including butter or lard) that may be savoury or sweetened. Sweetened pastries are often described as '' bakers' confectionery''. The word "pastries" sugges ...
peer-to-peer
Peer-to-peer (P2P) computing or networking is a distributed application architecture that partitions tasks or workloads between peers. Peers are equally privileged, equipotent participants in the network. They are said to form a peer-to-peer ...
overlay network.
See also
*
Pastry (DHT) (PAST section)
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
* ttp://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/abs_free.jsp?arNumber=990064 http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/abs_free.jsp?arNumber=990064 IEEE
Distributed data storage
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