Design and evaluation of a high performance parallel file system

Author

Ou, Li ; He, Xubin ; Scott, Stephen L. ; Xu, Zhiyong ; Fang, Yung-Chin

Author_Institution

Tennessee Technol. Univ., Cookeville, TN

fYear

2005

fDate

17-17 Nov. 2005

Firstpage

100

Lastpage

107

Abstract

In this paper we propose a high performance parallel file system over iSCSI (iPVFS) for cluster computing. iPVFS provides a cost-effective solution for heterogeneous cluster environment by dividing a set of I/O servers into two groups, one group with higher performance servers as I/O nodes, while another group with relatively lower performance machines serves as storage target nodes. This combination provides a higher aggregate performance because of the cooperative cache among different target nodes. We have developed a model to analyze iPVFS. Our simulation results show that using same number of total nodes, iPVFS outperforms PVFS for both small requests and large requests under different workloads

Keywords

parallel processing; workstation clusters; I-O nodes; I-O servers; cluster computing; heterogeneous cluster environment; high performance parallel file system; iPVFS; iSCSI; storage target nodes; Aggregates; Bandwidth; Computational modeling; Computer networks; Concurrent computing; Delay; File servers; File systems; High performance computing; Linux;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Local Computer Networks, 2005. 30th Anniversary. The IEEE Conference on

Conference_Location

Sydney, NSW

ISSN

0742-1303

Print_ISBN

0-7695-2421-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/LCN.2005.50

Filename

1550846