Data Reservoir on IPv6: 10Gb Disk Service in a Box
URL: data-reservoir.adm.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp grape-dr.adm.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp Contact: Kei Hiraki, University of Tokyo, Japan, hiraki @ is.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp Collaborators: University of Tokyo, Japan: Kei Hiraki, Akira Kato, Mary Inaba, Makoto Nakamura, Junji Tamatsukuri Fujitsu Computer Technologies, Japan: Ryutaro Kurusu, Masakazu Sakamoto, Yuki Furukawa, Yukichi Ikuta Pacific Northwest GigaPoP, USA: Jan Eveleth The Data Reservoir project’s goal is to create a global grid infrastructure for scientific disciplines, to enable distributed data sharing and high-speed computing for data analysis and numerical simulations. At the center of this infrastructure is the 2-PFLOPS system being developed as part of the GRAPE-DR project, to be operational in 2008. At iGrid, storage services that use the GRAPE-DR’s single-box high-density 10Gb storage server and an IPv6 fast TCP data transfer protocol demonstrate, for the first time, 10Gb TCP utilization in a production environment. By using “inter-layer coordination optimization” for TCP on both IPv4 and IPv6, 10Gb storage services can be realized using only a few TCP streams, providing new opportunities for large-scale data sharing. This project receives funding from the Special Coordination Fund for Promoting Science and Technology, MEXT, Japan. |
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