TY - GEN
T1 - Massive high-performance Global File Systems for grid computing
AU - Andrews, Phil
AU - Kovatch, Patricia
AU - Jordan, Christopher
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2005 IEEE.
PY - 2005
Y1 - 2005
N2 - In this paper we describe the evolution of Global File Systems from the concept of a few years ago, to a first demonstration using hardware Fibre Channel frame encoding into IP packets, to a native GFS, to a full prototype demonstration, and finally to a production implementation. The surprisingly excellent performance of the Global File Systems over standard TCP/IP Wide Area Networks has made them a viable candidate for the support of Grid Supercomputing. The implementation designs and performance results are documented within this paper. We also motivate and describe the authentication extensions we made to the IBM GPFS file system, in collaboration with IBM. In several ways Global File Systems are superior to die original approach of wholesale file movement between grid sites and we speculate as to future modes of operation.
AB - In this paper we describe the evolution of Global File Systems from the concept of a few years ago, to a first demonstration using hardware Fibre Channel frame encoding into IP packets, to a native GFS, to a full prototype demonstration, and finally to a production implementation. The surprisingly excellent performance of the Global File Systems over standard TCP/IP Wide Area Networks has made them a viable candidate for the support of Grid Supercomputing. The implementation designs and performance results are documented within this paper. We also motivate and describe the authentication extensions we made to the IBM GPFS file system, in collaboration with IBM. In several ways Global File Systems are superior to die original approach of wholesale file movement between grid sites and we speculate as to future modes of operation.
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/33845432363
U2 - 10.1109/SC.2005.44
DO - 10.1109/SC.2005.44
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:33845432363
SN - 1595930612
SN - 9781595930613
T3 - Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE 2005 Supercomputing Conference, SC'05
BT - Proceedings - Thirteenth International Symposium on Temporal Representation and Reasoning, TIME 2006
T2 - ACM/IEEE 2005 Supercomputing Conference, SC'05
Y2 - 12 November 2005 through 18 November 2005
ER -