2003 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary
A research on high performance file server with PC clusters based on parallel I/O system
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14580360
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
計算機科学
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| Research Institution | University of Tsukuba |
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Principal Investigator |
BOKU Taisuke University of Tsukuba, Institute of Information Sciences and Electronics, Associate Professor, 電子・情報工学系(計算物理学研究センター), 助教授 (90209346)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
ISHIKAWA Yutaka The University of Tokyo, Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, Associate Professor, 大学院・情報理工学系研究科, 助教授 (70345122)
TAKAHASHI Daisuke University of Tsukuba, Institute of Information Sciences and Electronics, Lecturer, 電子・情報工学系(計算物理学研究センター), 講師 (00292714)
SATO Mitsuhisa University of Tsukuba, Institute of Information Sciences and Electronics, Professor, 電子・情報工学系(計算物理学研究センター), 教授 (60333481)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2002 – 2003
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| Keywords | Parallel I / O System / PC Cluster / Network trunk / Ethernet / File System |
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| Research Abstract |
In this research, we studied a user-level network file system using PC-cluster based on the concept of parallel I/O system with parallel network links. The purpose of this research is to study the effectiveness of introducing wide-bandwidth parallel network channels to balance the bandwidth of today's high-speed disk system when building user-level network file system on PC-clusters.
On an experimental cluster with four nodes where each node is equipped with dual-CPU SMP system and multi-port NICs, a quad-port Fast Ethernet and dual-port Gigabit Ethernet. We confirmed that such a high-end PC server with dual-CPU SMP can support our multi-threaded parallel I/O system to trunk multiple links of Ethernet. This system can achieve 90% and 70% of peak performance on quad Fast Ethernet and dual Gigabit Ethernet, respectively. We also designed a prototype of network file system for parallel scientific applications on this system.
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