September 2008 HPC User Forum Meeting Notes: Storage and I/O Directions and Issues in HPC

Publication Date	December 2008
Publisher	IDC
Product Type	Report
Pages	8
ISBN Number	not applicable
Product Code	IDC06630

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Summary

This IDC update documents the 29th High-Performance Computing (HPC) User Forum discussions and presentations on storage and I/O directions and issues and concerns in HPC. The meeting took place at Loew's Ventana Canyon hotel in Tucson, Arizona, on September 8-10, 2008.

Content

In This Update
- HPC Panel on Large Distributed Storage Trends and Issues
- Question 1: There's a Lot of Hype Around the Potential Use of Flash Memory. Will It Really Help HPC?
- Question 2: There Are Too Many Competing De Facto Storage Standards. Which Ones Should You Support, and What Do You Think About Object-Based Storage?
- Question 3: Besides IB and 10GbE, What Are Your Views on Where the HPC Community Should Focus?
- Question 4: If You Had a Choice Today to Try Something New, Would It Be Worthwhile to Scratch Every Existing File System?
- Question 5: Soon Compute Will Be Easy, But Storage Will Not Be. What Should We Do Today So That in 10-15 Years We Won't Say, I Wish I Had Done That?
- Allan Snavely, SDSC: "Large-Scale Modeling on Ranger"
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