ORNL: Science & Technology: High Performance Computing: High Performance Storage Systems

OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY

High Performance Storage Systems

Big problems have massive data requirements. ORNL's separate production and research storage systems allow us to push the frontiers in storage system research while continuing to provide state-of-the-art service to our user community.

History

In response to research needs, ORNL has developed significant expertise in high performance storage systems -- recognized with an R&D 100 award for development of storage management software.

ORNL Storage history
1996 DOE award for giant magnetoresistance (GMR) research
Probe storage and networking research facility
    Probe projects

Storage research

The main thrust of ORNL's storage research takes advantage of the CCS storage and networking research facility to improve storage functions for the benefit of scientific applications. Future storage research projects will be listed in this area.

CSM systems and operations group

Storage applications

ORNL performs research in several areas which produce massive quantities of data.

ARM Archive (Atmospheric Radiation Measurement Program)
Climate & Carbon Research
EOSDIS (ORNL Distributed Active Archive Center for Biogeochemical Dynamics)
Computational Biosciences (genome annotation)
Comparison of high volume storage applications

Current storage resources

ORNL's storage resources support production supercomputing, scientific data archive, storage system research and development and high-bandwidth network research.

CSM systems and operations group
    ORNL Mass Storage System