HPC File Systems, Challenges, and Use Cases
Moderator
Event Type
Panel
Clouds and Distributed Computing
File Systems
Storage
TimeFriday, November 18th8:30am - 10am
Location255-EF
DescriptionNot so long ago, high performance file systems for scientific applications were a technology that was understood by few, and expectations from the scientific community (aka the users) were low, the community had strong views on which filesystem was best for different workloads. High production stability required high expertise and administrator attention, and people accepted data loss as a fair possibility. Moving forward a few years, commercial offerings have become strong stable products, open source is widely accepted for enterprise solutions, and a new generation of researchers has arrived – those who grew up with Dropbox, Google Drive, Amazon’s web services, and FlickR. They have much higher expectations. They expect more from a scale out storage infrastructure than the generation before. For them, capacity is normal, and durability is table stakes. With experienced technologists developing Spectrum Scale(formerly GPFS), Lustre, and Ceph, the panel will provide a unique and lively discussion.
