[Crib-list] Computational Research in Boston and Beyond Seminar (CRIBB) -- SPEAKER: James Reaney (BlueArc Corporation)-- Friday, Oct. 8, 2010 -- TIME: 12:30 PM in Room 32-124 (Stata Center)

[Shirley Entzminger]

 	  COMPUTATIONAL RESEARCH in BOSTON and BEYOND Seminar


DATE:		Friday, October 8, 2010
TIME:		12:30 PM
LOCATION:	Building 32, Room 124 -- Stata Center (32 Vassar Street)

Pizza provided at 12:10 PM outside Room 32-124


TITLE:		Parallel filesystems: A Vendor Perspective on
 		Open vs. Closed Choices and Why We Should Care.


SPEAKER:	James Reaney  (BlueArc Corporation)


ABSTRACT:

Filesystems for research computing come in two basic flavors today:
proprietary parallel filesystems and the more open, usually distributed,
but not really parallel filesystem alternatives.  The storage industry
will soon enter a new era as pNFS-based filesystems merge these two
flavors in an attempt to get the best of both worlds:  true parallel I/O
at massive scales together with an open, interoperable standard.  Join
Dr. James Reaney of BlueArc as he examines the current state of parallel
filesystems and gives a retrospective on a few of the early distributed
network filesystems to see what lessons can be learned.  An overview of
the upcoming pNFS standard will be offered together with a preview of
BlueArc's filesystem plans in support of that standard.

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, MA


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