The parallel I/O architecture of the high-performance storage system (HPSS)

  • Authors:
  • R. W. Watson;R. A. Coyne

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • MSS '95 Proceedings of the 14th IEEE Symposium on Mass Storage Systems
  • Year:
  • 1995

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Abstract

Datasets up to terabyte size and petabyte total capacities have created a serious imbalance between I/O and storage-system performance and system functionality. One promising approach is the use of parallel data-transfer techniques for client access to storage, peripheral-to-peripheral transfers, and remote file transfers. This paper describes the parallel I/O architecture and mechanisms, parallel transport protocol (PTP), parallel FTP, and parallel client application programming interface (API) used by the high-performance storage system (HPSS). Parallel storage integration issues with a local parallel file system are also discussed.