[san-tech][03583] NCSA Blue Waters deploys Redundant Arrays of Independent Tapes (RAIT)

Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2012 16:03:02 +0900
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2012年 4月 16日～18日に開催された HPC User Forumの資料を見ていて気付いた
のですが、NCSA Blue Watersのテープシステム (Spectra Logic T-Finity Libraries
380 raw petabytes (PB)) では、Redundant Arrays of Independent Tapes (RAIT)
が採用されています。

"Blue Waters"
 Merle Giles, NCSA Business & Economic Development
 HPC User Forum - Richmond VA - April 2012
  http://www.hpcuserforum.com/presentations/richmond2012/GilesRichmondVApdf.pdf

RAIT (Page 12)
*)Multiple data classes depending on file size to take advantage of tape
  writing strategies
    4+1, 7+2, 10+2, etc
    Trade off latency vs performance - Depends on the size of the data
*)Multiple levels of RAIT part of the requirements
    ....
Blue Waters Project
  http://www.ncsa.illinois.edu/BlueWaters/

Spectra Logic関連プレスリリース：

"Spectra Logic T-Finity Libraries to be Exclusive Provider of Tape Storage
 for NCSA's Blue Waters Supercomputer"
 May 22, 2012
  http://www.spectralogic.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=press.viewReleaseDetail&CatID=72&PrId=315

  "The Blue Waters system will be one of the world's largest active file
   repositories stored on tape media and will scale to a capacity of
   380 raw petabytes (PB) within the first two years of operation. Spectra
   T-Finity tape libraries will provide the Blue Waters project with
   the ability to keep all near-line data accessible in an active repository,
   perform automated data integrity verification for the data store,
   and deliver high performance read/write rates of up to 2.2 PBs per hour
   utilizing enterprise TS1140 Technology tape drives."

"Spectra Logic Delivers ExaScale Storage for 'Big Data'; Announces Series of
 Products and Advancements and Unveils World's Highest Capacity Storage System"
 November 1, 2011
  http://www.spectralogic.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=press.viewReleaseDetail&CatID=72&PrId=301

  "The Spectra T-Finity with TeraPack media storage is optimally designed
   for support of Redundant Arrays of Independent Tapes (RAIT) and provides
   enhanced performance, reliability and data integrity capabilities."


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[san-tech][01653] RAIT: Redundant Array of Independent Tape
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