Trust & File Systems Rick Wagner HPC Systems Manager
IDI: Building the Digital University Rick Wagner Frank K. Wuerthwein Rob Knight “…integrates compute & storage resources at SDSC with instruments and labs across campus…” 2 Focuses Integrative Omics Seamless Data & Computing 3 Components High-performance, scalable, central storage Campus backbone and the Prism network as a Science DMZ Core and embedded IT staff in a tiered model
Why Will This Succeed? Tiered Staffing Model Project funds central storage engineers and lab admins Labs are not customers, they’re part of the team! storage engineer lab admin researcher Project Team Lab ALab B
On Campus c = ∞ Parallel File System Lab A Lab B Comet ScienceDMZ
Lab ALab B Comet Scalable Parallel File System
OSS MDS ost0/labA-ost0 ost0/labB-ost0 ost0/comet-ost0 ost1/labA-ost1 ost1/labB-ost1 ost1/comet-ost1 mdt0/labA-mdt0 mdt0/labB-mdt0 mdt0/comet-mdt0 Lab A Lab B Comet /oasis/projects/labA /oasis/projects/labB /oasis/comet/scratch /oasis/projects/labA /oasis/projects/labB NID0 NID1 ZFS is magical! zpool dataset
Lack of Trust
Lustre nodemap Steve Simms, IU LUG2015 +shared keys!
Lab A Lab B Comet Scalable Parallel File System Lab C virtual cluster FIONA
Lab A Lab B Comet Scalable Parallel File System Lab C virtual cluster Lab D c != ∞ ∴ streaming IO FIONA