Architecture and method for a burst buffer using flash technology

Title: Architecture and method for a burst buffer using flash technology

A parallel supercomputing cluster includes compute nodes interconnected in a mesh of data links for executing an MPI job, and solid-state storage nodes each linked to a respective group of the compute nodes for receiving checkpoint data from the respective compute nodes, and magnetic disk storage linked to each of the solid-state storage nodes for asynchronous migration of the checkpoint data from the solid-state storage nodes to the magnetic disk storage. Each solid-state storage node presents a file system interface to the MPI job, and multiple MPI processes of the MPI job write the checkpoint data to a shared file in the solid-state storage in a strided fashion, and the solid-state storage node asynchronously migrates the checkpoint data from the shared file in the solid-state storage to the magnetic disk storage and writes the checkpoint data to the magnetic disk storage in a sequential fashion.

Inventors:: Tzelnic, Percy; Faibish, Sorin; Gupta, Uday K.; Bent, John; Grider, Gary Alan; Chen, Hsing-bung

Issue Date:: 2016-03-15

OSTI Identifier:: 1243041

Assignee:: EMC Corporation (Hopkinton, MA) Los Alamos National Security, LLC (Los Alamos, NM) LANL

Patent Number(s):: 9,286,261

Application Number:: 13/676,000

Contract Number:: AC52-06NA25396

Resource Relation:: Patent File Date: 2012 Nov 13

Research Org:: Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)

Sponsoring Org:: USDOE

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

Subject:: 97 MATHEMATICS AND COMPUTING

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