Fermilab's multi-Petabyte scalable mass storage system

Gene Oleynik, Bonnie Alcorn, Wayne Baisley, Jon Bakken, David Berg, Eileen Berman, Chih Hao Huang, Terry Jones, Robert D. Kennedy, Alexander Kulyavtsev, Alexander Moibenko, Timur Perelmutov, Don Petravick, Vladimir Podstavkov, George Szmuksta, Michael Zalokar

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Abstract

Fermilab provides a multi-Petabyte scale mass storage system for High Energy Physics (HEP) Experiments and other scientific endeavors. We describe the scalability aspects of the hardware and software architecture that were designed into the Mass Storage System to permit us to scale to multiple petabytes of storage capacity, manage tens of terabytes per day in data transfers, support hundreds of users, and maintain data integrity. We discuss in detail how we scale the system over time to meet the ever-increasing needs of the scientific community, and relate our experiences with many of the technical and economic issues related to scaling the system. Since the 2003 MSST conference, the experiments at Fermilab have generated more than 1.9 PB of additional data. We present results on how this system has scaled and performed for the Fermilab CDF and DO Run II experiments as well as other HEP experiments and scientific endeavors.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationProceedings - Twenty-second IEEE/Thirteenth NASA Goddard Conference on Mass Storage Systems and Technologies
Pages73-80
Number of pages8
DOIs
StatePublished - 2005
Externally publishedYes
EventTwenty-second IEEE/Thirteenth NASA Goddard Conference on Mass Storage Systems and Technologies, IEEE/NASA MSST2005 - Monterey, CA, United States
Duration: Apr 11 2005Apr 14 2005

Publication series

NameProceedings - Twenty -second IEEE/Thirteenth NASA Goddard Conference on Mass Storage Systems and Technologies

Other

OtherTwenty-second IEEE/Thirteenth NASA Goddard Conference on Mass Storage Systems and Technologies, IEEE/NASA MSST2005
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityMonterey, CA
Period4/11/054/14/05

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • General Engineering

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