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Mar 25 – 29, 2019
SDSC Auditorium
America/Los_Angeles timezone

Storage management in a large scale at BNL

Mar 27, 2019, 11:35 AM
25m
E-B 212 (SDSC Auditorium)

E-B 212

SDSC Auditorium

10100 Hopkins Drive La Jolla, CA 92093-0505
Storage & Filesystems Storage & Filesystems

Speaker

Robert Hancock (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

Description

Brookhaven National Laboratory stores and processes large amounts of data from the following: PHENIX,STAR,ATLAS,Belle II, Simons, as well as smaller local projects. This data is stored long term in tape libraries but one working data is stored in disk arrays. Hardware raid devices from companies such as Hitachi Ventara are very convenient and require minimal administrative intervention. However, they are very expensive relative the alternatives. BNL is making a move toward JBOD (Just a Bunch of Disk) arrays with Linux based software raid. The performance is comparable and sometimes better than the hardware cousins but the cost is less than half. However, the construction and administration is more complex. This requires more hours of skilled manpower from staff to install and maintain. I am developing software at BNL to automate these processes to the level of hardware raid in order to reduce this burden while allowing cost savings.

Primary author

Robert Hancock (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

Presentation materials