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Architecture of a Next-Generation Object Storage Device in the Panasas Filesystem
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Event Type
Exhibitor Forum
Architectures
Storage
TimeThursday, November 15th11:30am - 12pm
LocationD173
DescriptionThe fundamental storage component of the scale-out Panasas Filesystem (PanFS) is an Object Storage Device (OSD). After 17 years of incremental improvements to the hardware and software of their OSD, Panasas unveils its completely re-engineered, next-generation OSD and associated OSD Filesystem (OSDFS). It is designed to handle the extreme performance, reliability, and cost-efficiency requirements of exascale HPC and the parallel storage systems that must back it, and lays the foundation for future innovations.
In this presentation, we discuss the unique requirements of a parallel filesystem OSDFS that drove our original design, how evolving workload characteristics necessitated changes to hardware and software, the need for portable software, and key details of the new OSD architecture that is being announced and demonstrated at SC’18. We conclude with real-world performance analysis of our next-generation OSD and discuss its deep contributions in the near- and long-term to the overall Panasas performance and features roadmaps.
In this presentation, we discuss the unique requirements of a parallel filesystem OSDFS that drove our original design, how evolving workload characteristics necessitated changes to hardware and software, the need for portable software, and key details of the new OSD architecture that is being announced and demonstrated at SC’18. We conclude with real-world performance analysis of our next-generation OSD and discuss its deep contributions in the near- and long-term to the overall Panasas performance and features roadmaps.
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