Coordinating government funding of file system and I/O research through the high end computing university research activity

ABSTRACT

In 2003, the High End Computing Revitalization Task Force designated file systems and I/O as an area in need of national focus. The purpose of the High End Computing Interagency Working Group (HECIWG) is to coordinate government spending on File Systems and I/O (FSIO) R&D by all the government agencies that are involved in High End Computing. The HECIWG tasked a smaller advisory group to list, categorize, and prioritize HEC I/O and File Systems R&D needs. In 2005, leaders in FSIO from academia, industry and government agencies collaborated to list and prioritize areas of research in HEC FSIO. This led to a very successful High End Computing University Research Activity (HECURA) call from NSF in 2006 and has prompted a new HECURA call from NSF in 2009. This paper serves as both a review of the 2008 HEC FSIO identified research gaps as well as a preview of this forthcoming HECURA call.

REFERENCES

• 1: NITRD High End Computing Revitalization Task Force (HECRTF). 2003. Report of the Workshop on the Roadmap for the Revitalization of High-End Computing. Daniel A. Reed, ed. June 16-20, Washington, D.C.
• 2: Ross, R., Felix, E., Loewe, B., Ward, L., Grider, G., and Hill, R. 2005 HPC File Systems and Scalable I/O: Suggested Research and Development Topics for the Fiscal 2005-2009 Time Frame, tech. report, 2005, http://institutes.lanl.gov/hec-fsio/docs/FileSystems-DTS-SIO-FY05-FY09-R&D-topics-final.pdf

INDEX TERMS

Primary Classification:
  E. Data
  E.5 FILES

Additional Classification:
  B. Hardware
  B.3 MEMORY STRUCTURES
      B.3.2 Design Styles
          Subjects: Mass storage (e.g., magnetic, optical, RAID)

  D. Software
  D.4 OPERATING SYSTEMS
      D.4.3 File Systems Management
          Subjects: Distributed file systems; Access methods; Directory structures; File organization

  H. Information Systems
  H.3 INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL
      H.3.2 Information Storage
          Subjects: File organization

General Terms:
Algorithms, Design, Management, Measurement, Performance, Reliability, Security, Standardization

Keywords:
file systems, high end computing, storage