Patent ID: 8935431
Filing Date: 2015-01-13
Classification: G06F,G16H

Abstract:
1. A distributed system, compromising: a network; a storage node coupled to the network for storing data; a plurality of application nodes coupled to the network; and a parallel file structure disposed across the storage node and application nodes to allow data storage, access and sharing through the parallel file structure, wherein at least one of the application nodes comprises at least one medical modality selected from a group consisting of an echo-cardiogram modality, an electrocardiogram modality, an electromyography modality, an oncology modality, an angiography modality, and an electrophysiology modality; one or more external tape libraries in communication with the distributed system; one or more virtual tape libraries in communication with the distributed system; one or more data de-duplication services in communication with the distributed system; an interface node, comprising: a system management node; and a storage management server, comprising: wherein the storage node comprises multiple RAID disk arrays accessed via the device driver, wherein the storage node is configured to access the parallel file structure through kernel system calls; wherein at least one of the application nodes comprises: wherein the parallel file structure further comprises a plurality of reliable scalable cluster technology (RSCT) daemons configured to provide topology services and group services over the parallel file structure, and wherein the parallel file structure is further disposed across the system management node and the storage management server wherein the parallel file structure further comprises a plurality of reliable scalable cluster technology (RSCT) daemons configured to provide topology services and group services over the parallel file structure wherein each RSCT daemon is further configured to: wherein each daemon comprises a multi-threaded process, wherein at least one daemon comprises a dedicated thread.