SCHEDULE: NOV 10-16, 2007

TeraGrid Data Movement with GPFS-WAN and Parallel NFS

Session: Bandwidth Challenge Finalists

Event Type: Challenge Finalist

Time: 4:48pm

Session Chair: Debbie Montano

Team Member(s): Patricia Kovatch, Phil Andrews, Roger Haskin, Marc Eshel, John White, Michelle Butler

Location: A10 / A11

Abstract:
Recent advances in parallel NFS (pNFS) and GPFS enable pNFS clients to achieve high performance access to IBM's GPFS. With a 0.75 PB GPFS-WAN located at SDSC exported through pNFS servers over the TeraGrid network, we will demonstrate pNFS clients accessing GPFS servers in a parallel manner. Nodes at SC '07, NCSA, NCAR and other TeraGrid sites will mount this parallel file system. This new technology allows a diverse set of machines from different manufacturers to easily access GPFS as a high performance global file system.

Chair/Team Member Details:

Debbie Montano (Chair)
Force10 Networks

Patricia Kovatch
UCSD

Phil Andrews
SDSC

Roger Haskin
IBM

Marc Eshel
IBM

John White
SDSC

Michelle Butler
NCSA

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