Abstract
Disk-based smart storage represents processor-embedded active I/O devices that are equipped with a dedicated network interface controller and on-disk storage (memory and disk). Today's I/O-intensive workloads require architectures whose performance scales with increasing storage capacity. The advent of switch-based, low-latency and high-bandwidth network protocols, such as Virtual Interface Architecture and InfiniBand, promises to improve both performance and scalability beyond current state-of-the-art I/O interconnect topologies. This paper evaluates a disk-based distributed smart storage architecture composed of fully distributed processor-embedded disks that are interconnected by a high-performance switched network, and investigates the performance of the proposed processing model on different storage interconnects with representative workloads, including TPC-H queries, association rules mining, high-dimensional data clustering, and two-dimensional fast Fourier transform (FFT).
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 643-656 |
Number of pages | 14 |
Journal | Future Generation Computer Systems |
Volume | 22 |
Issue number | 5 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Apr 2006 |
Funding
Wei-keng Liao is a research assistant professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at Northwestern University. He received a PhD in computer and information science from Syracuse University in 1999. His research interests are in the areas of high-performance computing, parallel I/O, data mining, and data management for large-scale scientific applications. Dr. Liao has participated in several research projects sponsored by the U.S. DoE.
Keywords
- Cluster computing
- InfiniBand
- Parallel I/O
- Storage interconnect
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Software
- Hardware and Architecture
- Computer Networks and Communications