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Creating Scalable Petascale File Systems using Application-Aware Network Offloading

Award Information
Agency: Department of Energy
Branch: N/A
Contract: DE-FG02-08ER86334
Agency Tracking Number: 85408
Amount: $100,000.00
Phase: Phase I
Program: STTR
Solicitation Topic Code: 42 b
Solicitation Number: DE-PS02-07ER07-36
Timeline
Solicitation Year: 2008
Award Year: 2008
Award Start Date (Proposal Award Date): N/A
Award End Date (Contract End Date): N/A
Small Business Information
240 West Elmwood Street Suite 2010
Dayton, OH 45459
United States
DUNS: 141943030
HUBZone Owned: No
Woman Owned: No
Socially and Economically Disadvantaged: No
Principal Investigator
 Gerald Sabin
 Dr
 (937) 433-2886
 gsabin@rnet-tech.com
Business Contact
 Vaidnathan Nagarajan
Title: Dr
Phone: (937) 433-2886
Email: vnagarajan@rnet-tech.com
Research Institution
 Ohio State University
 Angela Maupin
 
2015 Neil Ave
Columbus, OH 43210-1277
United States

 (614) 247-6080
 Nonprofit College or University
Abstract

Many DOE applications are becoming more data intensive, and petascale computing systems are being developed to respond to this need. As these larger computing machines are developed, it is crucial that their file systems do not become the primary bottleneck. In order to meet the demand of such systems, the metadata server must be parallelized, and hardware offload techniques must be utilized to improve performance and scalability of parallel file systems. In this project, the meta-data server will be parallelized using low overhead RDMA operations and hardware based atomic consistency mechanisms. In addition, hardware offload techniques e.g., dynamic caching, hardware consistency protocol implementation, and networking atomic will be used to improve existing parallel file system implementations e.g., Lustre. Commercial Applications and other Benefits as described by the awardee: The scalable parallel file systems developed in this project will support the construction of larger supercomputers and data centers, required for cutting edge scientific research and large scale business applications.

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