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Article: Commoditization of high performance storage: breaking into the next frontier.(high performance computing)
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- Scientific Computing & Instrumentation
- Article date:
- April 1, 2004
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The commoditization of high performance computers started in the late 80s with the attack of the killer micros." Previously, high performance computers were exotic vector systems that could only be afforded by an illustrious few. Now, everyone has a supercomputer composed of clusters of commodity processors. A similar commoditization of high performance storage has begun. Commodity disks are being used for high performance storage, enabling a paradigm change in storage and significantly changing the price point of high volume storage.
Two years ago, I was presented with the problem of building a single large file system scaling beyond a petabyte at a reasonable ...