Storage systems for national information assets: A collaborative research project
- IBM Federal Systems Div., Owego, NY (United States)
- Lawrence Livermore National Lab., CA (United States)
The grand challenge problems of science and industry that are driving computing and communications have created corresponding challenges in information storage and retrieval. An industry-led collaborative project has been organized to investigate technology for storage systems that will be the future repositories for our national information assets. Industry participants are IBM Federal Systems Company, Ampex Recording Systems Division, General Atomics DISCOS Division, IBM Storage Systems Products Division, Maximum Strategy Corporation, Network Systems Corporation, and Zitel Corporation. Industry members of the collaborative project are funding their own participation. Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory through its National Energy Research Supercomputer Center (NERSC) will participate in the project as the operational site and the provider of applications. The expected result is the creation of a National Storage Laboratory to serve as a prototype and demonstration facility. It is expected that this prototype wig represent a significant advance in the technology for distributed storage systems capable of handling gigabit class files at gigabit per second data rates. Specifically, the collaboration expects to make significant advances in hardware, software, and systems technology in the four areas of need that are identified in this paper, which are (1) network-attached high performance storage; (2) multiple, dynamic, distributed storage hierarchies; (3) layered access to storage system services; and (4) storage system management.
- Research Organization:
- Lawrence Livermore National Lab., CA (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
- DOE Contract Number:
- W-7405-ENG-48
- OSTI ID:
- 10128210
- Report Number(s):
- UCRL-ID--111559; ON: DE93007402
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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