Title
Hybrid hierarchy storage system in MilkyWay-2 supercomputer
Abstract
With the rapid improvement of computation capability in high performance supercomputer system, the imbalance of performance between computation subsystem and storage subsystem has become more and more serious, especially when various big data are produced ranging from tens of gigabytes up to terabytes. To reduce this gap, large-scale storage systems need to be designed and implemented with high performance and scalability.MilkyWay-2 (TH-2) supercomputer system with peak performance 54.9 Pflops, definitely has this kind of requirement for storage system. This paper mainly introduces the storage system in MilkyWay-2 supercomputer, including the hardware architecture and the parallel file system. The storage system in MilkyWay-2 supercomputer exploits a novel hybrid hierarchy storage architecture to enable high scalability of I/O clients, I/O bandwidth and storage capacity. To fit this architecture, a user level virtualized file system, named H2FS, is designed and implemented which can cooperate local storage and shared storage together into a dynamic single namespace to optimize I/O performance in IO-intensive applications. The evaluation results show that the storage system in MilkyWay-2 supercomputer can satisfy the critical requirements in large scale supercomputer, such as performance and scalability.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.1007/s11704-014-3499-6
Frontiers of Computer Science: Selected Publications from Chinese Universities
Keywords
Field
DocType
supercomputer,storage system,file system,MilkyWay-2,hybrid,hierarchy
File system,Supercomputer,Computer data storage,Computer science,Supercomputer operating systems,Namespace,Big data,Operating system,Hardware architecture,Scalability
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
8
3
2095-2228
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
13
0.60
29
Authors
12
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Weixia Xu16416.66
Yutong Lu230753.61
Li Qiong3275.56
Enqiang Zhou4173.08
Zhenlong Song5181.35
Yong Dong6130.60
Zhang Wei739253.03
Dengping Wei8575.90
Xiaoming Zhang9130.60
Haitao Chen10130.60
Jianying Xing11130.60
Yuan Yuan12738.31