MDPS : The New Mass Data Processing Storage System for the Earth Simulator
Ken-ichi Itakura · Institutional Repositories DataBase (IRDB) · 2006
The Earth Simulator is one of the most powerful supercomputers in the world.Its high effective performance generates unprecedentedly huge volumes of data.We therefore needed to expand its storage system.The Mass Data Storage System (MDPS), introduced in October 2003, provides a vast permanent data storage area plus high-speed input and output data transfer between the MDPS and temporary disks at processing nodes.In this paper, we discuss the mass data storage system and describe the introduced ES storage system.