NASA Langley Research Center''s Distributed Mass Storage System
Juliet Z. Pao, D. Creig Humes · IEEE Conference on Mass Storage Systems and Technologies · 2003
There is a trend in institutions with high performance computing and data management requirements to explore mass storage systems with peripherals directly attached to a high speed network. The Distributed Mass Storage System (DMSS) Project at the NASA Langley Research Center (LaRC) is building such a system and expects to put it into production use by the end of 1993. This paper will present the design of, experiences with and performance of DMSS. The special features of this system are: 1) workstation class file servers running UniTree software, 2) third party I/O, 3) HIPPI network, 4) HIPPI/IPI3 disk array systems, 5) Storage Technology Corporation (STK) ACS 4400 automatic cartridge system, 6) CRAY Research Incorporated (CRI) CRAY Y-MP and CRAY 2 clients, 7) file server redundany provision, and 8) a transition mechanism from the existent mass storage system to the DMSS.