Active Object Storage to Enable Scalable and Reliable Parallel File Systems

主动对象存储支持可扩展且可靠的并行文件系统

• 批准号: 0937879
• 负责人: John Chandy
• 金额: $ 52.5万
• 依托单位: University of Connecticut
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2009-08-15 至 2015-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0937879&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Active; Object; Storage; Enable; Scalable

The increasing performance and decreasing cost of processors has enabled increased system intelligence at peripherals such as disk drives. This computational capability at the disk has led to the development of object-based storage whereby some of the file system functionality is moved to the disk. The computation capability can also enable computation at the storage node in what has been called active disks or active storage. This active storage computation serves as a mechanism to enable parallel computation using distributed storage nodes.This research focuses on the use of these active disks for parallel file system and storage management. A functional active storage system architecture built on the standardized object-storage device specification is being developed. The architecture supports a variety of execution engines allowing multiple programming languages and models. Using this active object storage architecture, mechanisms to improve overall scalability and large-scale system reliability are being investigated. In addition, active and object storage are used to enable customizable and extensible file systems including autonomic (self-configuring and self-managing) storage as well as application aware storage such that the storage can be optimized for application and user needs.

处理器性能的提高和成本的降低提高了磁盘驱动器等外围设备的系统智能性。磁盘上的这种计算能力导致了基于对象的存储的发展，其中一些文件系统功能被转移到磁盘上。计算能力还可以在所谓的活动磁盘或活动存储中的存储节点处启用计算。 这种主动存储计算作为一种使用分布式存储节点实现并行计算的机制。本研究重点关注使用这些主动磁盘进行并行文件系统和存储管理。 正在开发基于标准化对象存储设备规范的功能性主动存储系统架构。 该架构支持多种执行引擎，允许多种编程语言和模型。 使用这种主动对象存储架构，正在研究提高整体可扩展性和大规模系统可靠性的机制。 此外，主动存储和对象存储用于支持可定制和可扩展的文件系统，包括自主（自配置和自管理）存储以及应用程序感知存储，以便可以针对应用程序和用户需求优化存储。