Funding Acknowledgement

This work was done as part of the research program of the Ernest Orlando Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Computing Sciences Division, Distributed Systems Department, W.E. Johnston, Department Head (wejohnston@lbl.gov).

Our core program is supported by the Office of Energy Research, Office of Computation and Technology Research , Mathematical, Information, and Computational Sciences Division, of the U. S. Department of Energy under contract No. DE-AC03-76SF00098 with the University of California.

The Distributed-Parallel Storage System work is also supported by DARPA - ITO