Efficient Management of Complex Striped Files in Active Storage
EURO-PAR 2008 PARALLEL PROCESSING, PROCEEDINGS(2008)
Abstract
Active Storage provides an opportunity for reducing the bandwidth requirements between the storage and compute elements of current supercomputing systems, and leveraging the processing power of the storage nodes used by some modern file systems. To achieve both objectives, Active Storage allows certain processing tasks to be performed directly on the storage nodes, near the data they manage. However, Active Storage must also support key requirements of scientific applications. In particular, Active Storage must be able to support striped files and files with complex formats (e.g., netCDF). In this paper, we describe how these important requirements can be addressed. The experimental results on a Lustre file system not only show that our proposal can reduce the network traffic to near zero and scale the performance with the number of storage nodes, but also that it provides an efficient treatment of striped files and can manage files with complex data structures.
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Key words
complex format,certain processing task,modern file system,storage node,lustre file system,complex striped files,striped file,active storage,near zero,complex data structure,efficient management,processing power,complex data,memory management
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