Title :
An AFS-based supercomputing environment
Author :
Goldick, Jonathan S. ; Benninger, Kathy ; Brown, Woody ; Kirby, Christopher ; Maher, Christopher ; Nydick, Daniel S. ; Zumach, Bill
Author_Institution :
Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center, PA, USA
Abstract :
The Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center (PSC) has been using the Andrew File System (AFS) to integrate its supercomputing environment. Work has been completed to make AFS the PSC´s primary, permanent file-storage system. The PSC is using many of the components of this system in production. The PSC has extended AFS to meet its mass storage needs. These extensions include adding archival services to the AFS server and porting the AFS client to the Unicos operating system. The authors discuss the advantages of this system as well as how it performs in a supercomputing environment
Keywords :
digital storage; parallel processing; storage management; AFS-based supercomputing environment; Andrew File System; Unicos operating system; archival services; mass storage; permanent file-storage system; Availability; Computer graphics; Delay; File servers; File systems; Mass production; Operating systems; Production systems; Supercomputers; Workstations;
Conference_Titel :
Mass Storage Systems, 1993. Putting all that Data to Work. Proceedings., Twelfth IEEE Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Monterey, CA
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-3460-X
DOI :
10.1109/MASS.1993.289769
