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PowerPoint Presentation

The GUPFS Project at NERSC

Slide 3

LBNL & Department of Energy

NERSC Center Overview

NERSC’s Mission

FY 03 Usage by Scientific Discipline

NERSC Resources

Slide 9

Slide 10

GUPFS Project Overview

Global Unified Parallel File System (GUPFS)

Current NERSC Storage Configuration

NERSC Storage Vision

Envisioned NERSC Storage Configuration (GUPFS)

Where We Are Now

GUPFS Testbed (FY2004)

Technologies Evaluated

GUPFS Benchmark Methodology

GUPFS Benchmarks

Storage Performance

Storage Scalability

Comparison of Fabric Technologies

Software iSCSI vs. iSCSI HBA

Performance Impact of Kernel Changes

InfiniBand SRP Performance

ADIC StorNext File System 2.0

GPFS/Linux 1.3 Performance

GPFS/Linux 1.3 I/O Scalability

Lustre PIORAW Results

File System Metadata Performance

Near Term Activities

Summary

Observations

Observations (cont’d)

Thank You

GUPFS Team