Storage systems for national information assets: A collaborative research project

摘要: The grand challenge problems of science and industry that are driving computing communications have created corresponding challenges in information storage retrieval. An industry-led collaborative project has been organized to investigate technology for systems will be the future repositories our national assets. Industry participants IBM Federal Systems Company, Ampex Recording Division, General Atomics DISCOS Storage Products Maximum Strategy Corporation, Network Zitel Corporation. members funding their own participation. Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory through its Energy Research Supercomputer Center (NERSC) participate as operational site provider applications. expected result is creation a serve prototype demonstration facility. It this wig represent significant advance distributed capable handling gigabit class files at per second data rates. Specifically, collaboration expects make advances hardware, software, four areas need identified paper, which (1) network-attached high performance storage; (2) multiple, dynamic, storagemore » hierarchies; (3) layered access system services; (4) management.« less