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CERN Computing Seminar
Research in Storage Systems at IBM Research
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Europe/Zurich
500/1-001 - Main Auditorium (CERN)
Description
Jai Menon will discuss Research in Storage Systems at IBM Research. He will describe work in scalable, global file systems, storage virtualization, storage QOS, autonomic storage systems and Grid storage. Projects that will be covered will include Storage Tank and Icecube. Storage Tank is an enterprise-wide, geographically distributed, storage software infrastructure which permits goal oriented, policy-driven storage management. IceCube is an IBM Research-designed architecture for servers that follows these simple principles. It consists of a large, three-dimensional array (the 'Cube') of 'bricks' that collectively provide a very high resilience against failure. In a storage server application, each brick contains multiple disks and a processor. An extremely high bandwidth, three-dimensional mesh connects the bricks, making the location of data within the cube nearly irrelevant. This makes it possible for software to scatter and replicate data over many independent bricks. The scheme provides high assurance against data loss, as well as high performance for large data sets because subsets of the data can be retrieved in parallel.
BIO:
Dr. Jai Menon is IBM Research's leading authority on the design and architecture of data storage systems, which enable enterprises and organizations to manage their data reliably and efficiently. A native of Kerala, India, Menon received a Bachelor of Technology degree in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India in 1977. He earned a Master of Science and Ph.D degrees in Computer Science from Ohio State University in 1978 and 1981, respectively. In 1982, Menon joined IBM Research in San Jose, Calif., where he became a pioneering researcher and designer of data storage systems and RAID (Redundant Array of Independent Disks) architectures. He was named functional manager, CS; Storage Systems, in April 2000.
In May 2001, Jai was named IBM Fellow, the company's most prestigious and highest technical honor. He is also co-director of the Storage Systems Institute, a virtual organization/joint program between IBM Research and the Storage Systems Group aimed at speeding the incorporation of scientific and technological advances into IBM storage systems products. An IEEE Fellow and member of the IBM Academy of Technology, Menon has received numerous IBM technical awards,
published 31 refereed papers and 46 technical reports and is contributing author to three books on database and storage systems. He also holds 42 U.S. Patents and has 20 additional patent applications on file with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
