• DocumentCode
    2806521
  • Title

    High-Speed Data Transfer via HPSS using Striped Gigabit Ethernet Communications Phil Andrews, Tom Sherwin, and Victor Hazlewood

  • Author

    Andrews, Phil ; Sherwin, Tom ; Hazlewood, Victor

  • Author_Institution
    University of California, San Diego
  • fYear
    2001
  • fDate
    17-20 April 2001
  • Firstpage
    127
  • Lastpage
    127
  • Abstract
    The San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) hosts what is currently the world\´s largest High Performance Storage System (HPSS) with over 200TB of data. The major compute facility at the center is a Teraflop-sized IBM SP called "BlueHorizon". Although both the compute facility and the HPSS utilize IBM SP computers, they are physically distinct, not sharing a switch fabric. Presently communications between the two systems are via a High Performance Gateway Node (HPGN) but when the BlueHorizon switch is upgraded in the next two months to "Colony" communications, the HPGN will no longer be able to connect the two switches.
  • Keywords
    Communication switching; Concurrent computing; Engines; Ethernet networks; File servers; File systems; Hardware; Physics computing; Supercomputers; Switches;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Mass Storage Systems and Technologies, 2001. MSS '01. Eighteenth IEEE Symposium on
  • Conference_Location
    San Diego, CA, USA
  • ISSN
    2160-195X
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7695-0849-9
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/MSS.2001.10022
  • Filename
    4022192