{"title":"Applying IEEE Storage System Management Standards at the National Storage Laboratory","authors":"S. Louis, Susan W. Hyer","doi":"10.1109/MASS.1993.289777","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MASS.1993.289777","url":null,"abstract":"An early, practical application of IEEE storage-system-management work is being pursued at the National Storage Laboratory (NSL). Work has initiated to define basic management requirements and develop generalized graphical-user-interface tools using remote-procedure-call mechanisms to implement the NSL's conceptual management framework. Several constraints were imposed on the development of early versions of this work to maintain compatibility with the NSL's underlying UniTree-based software architecture and to provide timely prototypes and proof of concept. The project leverages the on-going standards work of the IEEE Storage System Standards Working Group and utilizes the ideas of previous, related efforts, including existing ISO (International Organization for standardization) management standards. It also explores some of the relationships and interactions between IEEE storage-system management and better-known management methods for distributed systems and networks.<<ETX>>","PeriodicalId":225568,"journal":{"name":"[1993] Proceedings Twelfth IEEE Symposium on Mass Storage systems","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1993-04-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115488980","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Requirements for hierarchical storage management at AT&T Bell Laboratories","authors":"David A. Lash","doi":"10.1109/MASS.1993.289782","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MASS.1993.289782","url":null,"abstract":"The author describes the computing environment and requirements for a hierarchical storage management (HSM) product within the AT&T Bell Laboratories. He first describes the data storage services provided within AT&T Bell Laboratories. Next, he describes the application environment of some of the major UTS and workstation customers. The applications considered include UTS-based software development and field support, workstation-based general computing, and workstation-based system test labs. Finally, he presents a concise statement of the HSM requirements, a method to measure these requirements, and the rationale behind each requirement.<<ETX>>","PeriodicalId":225568,"journal":{"name":"[1993] Proceedings Twelfth IEEE Symposium on Mass Storage systems","volume":"26 4","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1993-04-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114102336","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Re-defining the storage hierarchy: an ultra-fast magneto-optical disk drive","authors":"T. Nakagomi, M. Holzbach, R. V. Meter, S. Ranade","doi":"10.1109/MASS.1993.289750","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MASS.1993.289750","url":null,"abstract":"Asaca Corporation has developed a multibeam, magneto-optical disk drive with a native 12.24 Mbyte/second transfer rate. Originally developed for video broadcasting, it is now being adapted for the computer mass data storage market. A SCSI-2 interface is currently being developed to attach the drive and its related auto-changer to a high-performance computer as components of a network-attached, hierarchical file server system. Storage capacities of 2.88 TB and average aggregate (four drive system) input/output (I/O speeds of 32 MB/second) are considered possible. Asaca's high-speed magneto-optical (HSMO) technology enables a re-definition of the present storage hierarchy by allowing the use of optical disks to complement or, in some cases, replace high-performance magnetic tape.<<ETX>>","PeriodicalId":225568,"journal":{"name":"[1993] Proceedings Twelfth IEEE Symposium on Mass Storage systems","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1993-04-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128191887","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Scheduling real-time disk transfers for continuous media applications","authors":"D. Long, Madhukar N. Thakur","doi":"10.1109/MASS.1993.289755","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MASS.1993.289755","url":null,"abstract":"The authors study how continuous media data can be stored and accessed in the Swift distributed input/output (IO) architecture. They provide a scheme for scheduling real-time data transfers that satisfies the strict requirements of continuous-media applications. This scheme allows large data objects to be stored and retrieved concurrently from multiple disks to satisfy the high data rate requirements typical of real-time video and audio data. To do this, data transfer requests are split into smaller requests, which are then handled by the various components by Swift. On-line algorithms are studied that respond to a data request by promising to either satisfy or reject it. Each response must be made before the next request is seen by the algorithm. The authors discuss two different performance measures to evaluate such algorithms and show that no on-line algorithm can optimize these criteria to less than a constant fraction of the optimal. Finally, they propose an algorithm for handling such requests on-line and the related data structures.<<ETX>>","PeriodicalId":225568,"journal":{"name":"[1993] Proceedings Twelfth IEEE Symposium on Mass Storage systems","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1993-04-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129918522","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"System architectures using Fibre Channel","authors":"R. Cummings","doi":"10.1109/MASS.1993.289752","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MASS.1993.289752","url":null,"abstract":"The author chronicles an apparent stagnation in the design and development of the channel interfaces which connect to primarily disk and tape mass storage peripherals, and explores the effect of this stagnation on the architectures of current computer systems. He notes that the traditional distributed system architectures and the concept of standard slots are increasingly becoming the roadblocks to the adoption of new computer systems architectures and new applications. He identifies the requirements for a new type of peripheral-channel interface to break this barrier, and shows how a standard called Fibre Channel which is presently under development, will fulfill those requirements. Examples are given of the new system configurations which Fibre Channel will facilitate and which will support new applications such as multimedia.<<ETX>>","PeriodicalId":225568,"journal":{"name":"[1993] Proceedings Twelfth IEEE Symposium on Mass Storage systems","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1993-04-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133362461","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A test bed for a high-performance file server","authors":"D. Arneson, S. Beth, R. Tavakley, T. Ruwart","doi":"10.1109/MASS.1993.289763","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MASS.1993.289763","url":null,"abstract":"The authors outline the design concepts and issues being explored, using a large-scale, high-performance file server, in the High Performance File Server (HPFS) test bed at the US Army High Performance Computing Research Center (AHPCRC) at the University of Minnesota. They present the implementation of a variety of concepts described in the Mass Storage System Reference Model, and being developed by the IEEE Storage System Standards Working Group. The concepts implemented by this project include the separation of data and control within a distributed file system manager to effectively use a separate, high-speed data path managed by a Bitfile Mover. This project has been completed to the point of a successful demonstration of the functionality of the AFS Client interface using Bitfile Movers to read data over a HIPPI (High-Performance Parallel Interface) channel.<<ETX>>","PeriodicalId":225568,"journal":{"name":"[1993] Proceedings Twelfth IEEE Symposium on Mass Storage systems","volume":"41 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1993-04-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116692207","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A proof-of-concept implementation interfacing an object manager with a hierarchical storage system","authors":"R. L. Grossman, X. Qin, D. Lifka","doi":"10.1109/MASS.1993.289758","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MASS.1993.289758","url":null,"abstract":"The feasibility of providing transparent access to a collection of persistent, complex objects was investigated. An architecture for interfacing a persistent store of complex objects to a hierarchical storage system is described. Persistent-object stores support the uniform creation, storage, and access of complex objects, regardless of their lifetimes. In other words, a mechanism is provided by which persistent objects outlive the processes which create them and can be accessed in a uniform manner by other processes. This architecture was validated by implementing a proof-of-concept system and testing the system on two stores of data. These tests indicate that this architecture supports the creation, storage, and access of very large, persistent-object stores.<<ETX>>","PeriodicalId":225568,"journal":{"name":"[1993] Proceedings Twelfth IEEE Symposium on Mass Storage systems","volume":"107 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1993-04-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127018496","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Thomas Stephenson, R. Braudes, G. Speckert, Seth A. Steinberg, R. Upton
{"title":"Mass storage systems for image management and distribution","authors":"Thomas Stephenson, R. Braudes, G. Speckert, Seth A. Steinberg, R. Upton","doi":"10.1109/MASS.1993.289754","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MASS.1993.289754","url":null,"abstract":"The authors discuss how the characteristics of image data and requirements of image-intensive applications can affect the utility of mass-storage systems in very large image archive applications. They discuss the need for balancing mass-storage and networking architectures to meet the needs of such applications. They describe a hierarchical image representation scheme which has been shown to provide efficient access to large-image archives. Finally, they describe a large-image test bed (ImNET) currently being used at TASC to evaluate image representation and access concepts and to study their impact on distributed computing systems.<<ETX>>","PeriodicalId":225568,"journal":{"name":"[1993] Proceedings Twelfth IEEE Symposium on Mass Storage systems","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1993-04-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114265176","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The emerging storage management paradigm","authors":"S. Coleman, R. Watson, R. Coyne, H. Hulen","doi":"10.1109/MASS.1993.289772","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MASS.1993.289772","url":null,"abstract":"The authors present a summary of important challenges in managing and addressing the data of large commercial and governmental installations and the solutions that are arising from industry, national laboratories, and standards organizations. These issues are viewed from the perspective of a shift away from the paradigm of centralized, sequential storage systems toward a new paradigm of distributed, network-based, parallel storage systems. The challenges of technology discussed include high-speed storage devices, communications, and parallel computing. The relationship between managing data and managing storage is considered, with emphasis on scientific data objects. The challenge of integrating components from many vendors is also discussed.<<ETX>>","PeriodicalId":225568,"journal":{"name":"[1993] Proceedings Twelfth IEEE Symposium on Mass Storage systems","volume":"98 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1993-04-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133853454","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"HighLight: a file system for tertiary storage","authors":"John T. Kohl, M. Stonebraker, Carl Staelin","doi":"10.1109/MASS.1993.289765","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MASS.1993.289765","url":null,"abstract":"HighLight, a file system combining secondary disk storage and tertiary robotic storage that is being developed as part of the Sequoia 200 Project, is described. HighLight is an extension of the 4.4BSD log-structured file system (LFS), which provides hierarchical storage management without requiring any special support from applications. The authors present HighLight's design and various policies for automatic migration of file data between the hierarchy levels. The performance of HighLight was compared with that of the 4.4BSD LFS implementation. The initial results indicate that HighLight's performance is comparable to that of 4.4BSD LFS for disk-resident data, and the overhead associated with accessing data from the tertiary cache is negligible.<<ETX>>","PeriodicalId":225568,"journal":{"name":"[1993] Proceedings Twelfth IEEE Symposium on Mass Storage systems","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1993-04-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133608138","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}