%T The Grid Block Device
%A  Bardur Arrantsson,  Brian Vinter
%E  Jan F. Broenink,  Gerald H. Hilderink
%B Communicating Process Architectures 2003
%X In this paper we propose a distributed, replicated block
   device for The Gridbased on the the replication algorithm of
   Y. Amir[1]. The end goal is to supportapplication\-specified
   semantics, both wrt. replication strategy and the
   consistencymodel used for reads and writes.We list the
   proposed features of the Grid Block Device and discuss
   various methodsof implementation.