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Title: Cloud object store for archive storage of high performance computing data using decoupling middleware

Abstract

Cloud object storage is enabled for archived data, such as checkpoints and results, of high performance computing applications using a middleware process. A plurality of archived files, such as checkpoint files and results, generated by a plurality of processes in a parallel computing system are stored by obtaining the plurality of archived files from the parallel computing system; converting the plurality of archived files to objects using a log structured file system middleware process; and providing the objects for storage in a cloud object storage system. The plurality of processes may run, for example, on a plurality of compute nodes. The log structured file system middleware process may be embodied, for example, as a Parallel Log-Structured File System (PLFS). The log structured file system middleware process optionally executes on a burst buffer node.

Inventors:
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Issue Date:
Research Org.:
Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE
OSTI Identifier:
1187939
Patent Number(s):
9069778
Application Number:
13/730,097
Assignee:
Los Alamos National Security, LLC (Los Alamos, NM)
Patent Classifications (CPCs):
G - PHYSICS G06 - COMPUTING G06F - ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING
DOE Contract Number:  
AC52-06NA25396
Resource Type:
Patent
Resource Relation:
Patent File Date: 2012 Dec 28
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
97 MATHEMATICS AND COMPUTING

Citation Formats

Bent, John M., Faibish, Sorin, and Grider, Gary. Cloud object store for archive storage of high performance computing data using decoupling middleware. United States: N. p., 2015. Web.
Bent, John M., Faibish, Sorin, & Grider, Gary. Cloud object store for archive storage of high performance computing data using decoupling middleware. United States.
Bent, John M., Faibish, Sorin, and Grider, Gary. Tue . "Cloud object store for archive storage of high performance computing data using decoupling middleware". United States. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1187939.
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PLFS: a checkpoint filesystem for parallel applications
conference, January 2009


The design and implementation of a log-structured file system
journal, February 1992