COMPUTATIONAL RESEARCH in BOSTON and BEYOND (CRIBB)
| Date | Oct. 8, 2010 |
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| Speaker | James Reaney (BlueArc Corporation) |
| Topic | Parallel Filesystems: A Vendor Perspective on Open vs. Closed Choices and Why We Should Care. |
| Abstract: | Filesystems for research computing come in two basic flavors today: proprietary parallel filesystems and the more open, usually distributed, but not really parallel filesystem alternatives. The storage industry will soon enter a new era as pNFS-based filesystems merge these two flavors in an attempt to get the best of both worlds: true parallel I/O at massive scales together with an open, interoperable standard. Join Dr. James Reaney of BlueArc as he examines the current state of parallel filesystems and gives a retrospective on a few of the early distributed network filesystems to see what lessons can be learned. An overview of the upcoming pNFS standard will be offered together with a preview of BlueArc's filesystem plans in support of that standard. |
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We thank the generous support of MIT IS&T, CSAIL, and the Department of Mathematics for their support of this series.