Acquisition of CAPRI: CSCC Archival and Parallel Resource Interface

9512507由加州理工学院领导的并发超级计算联盟(CSCC)提议收购一个具有并行I/O架构的大型数据存储设施，并将其与该联盟现有的计算资源整合。它将开展一个CSCC档案和并行资源接口(CAPRI)项目，该项目将使新的数据密集型应用程序得以实施。该设施将提供存储TB级数据和访问具有多个并行接口的存储系统的能力。它将作为可扩展I/O研究计划的关键研究工具。该研究项目的结果将使该联盟的科学家在数据密集型计算问题上取得前所未有的性能。该项目将通过创建与计算资源生成数据的惊人能力相称的存储能力来极大地增强联盟的计算环境。建议的系统的主要组成部分是(1)高性能存储系统(HPSS)软件包，(2)千兆字节的板载磁盘高速缓存，(3)用于支持并行网络I/O的16个HIPPI节点，(4)80G的RAID磁盘高速缓存，(5)15TB的档案存储系统，包括4个IBM 3490-C2a磁带驱动器和自动磁带处理，以及(6)HIPPI交换机。***

9512507 Messina The Concurrent Supercomputing Consortium (CSCC) which is led by the California Institute of Technology proposes to acquire a large-scale data storage facility with a parallel I/O architecture and integrate it with the consortium's existing computing resources. It will undertake a CSCC Archive and Parallel Resource Interface (CAPRI) project which will enable new, data-intensive applications to be carried out. The facility will provide the ability to store terabytes of data and to access the storage system with multiple parallel interfaces. It will serve as a key research instrument for the scalable I/O research initiative. The results of the research project will enable the scientists at the Consortium to achieve unprecedented performance on data-intensive computational problems. The project will greatly enhance the Consortium's computing environment by creating storage capability commensurate with the prodigious ability of the computational resources to generate data. The major components of the proposed system are (1) the high-performance storage system (HPSS) software package, (2) a 64 Gigabyte on-board disk cache, (3) 16 HIPPI nodes for supporting parallel network I/O, (4) 80 Gigabytes of RAID disk caches, (5) a 15 Terabyte archival storage system including four IBM 3490-C2A tape drives and robotic tape handling, and (6) a HIPPI switch. ***