A practical approach to reconciling availability, performance, and capacity in provisioning extreme-scale storage systems
Lipeng Wan, Feiyi Wang, Sarp Oral, Devesh Tiwari, Sudharshan S. Vazhkudai, Qing Cao · 2015
The increasing data demands from high-performance computing applications significantly accelerate the capacity, capability and reliability requirements of storage systems. As systems scale, component failures and repair times increase, significantly impacting data availability. A wide array of decision points must be balanced in designing such systems.