Research Projects

PVFS : Parallel Virtual File System

PIs:
Rob Ross

MCS People Involved:
Kamil Iskra, Samuel Lang, Robert Latham, Kazutomo Yoshii

Additional People:
Lee Ward (Sandia), Ruth Klundt (Sandia), James Schutt (Sandia), Pete Wyckoff (OSC), Troy Baer (OSC), Walt Ligon III (Clemson), Brad Settlemyer (Clemson), Alok Choudhary (NU), Avery Ching (NU), Kenin Coloma (NU), Thomas Ludwig (UH), Julian Kunkel (UH), Bret Bode (Ames), Kyle Schochenmaier (Ames), Jun Wang (UCF), Peng Gu (UCF), D.K. Panda (OSU), Peter Honeyman (U-M), Dean Hilderbrand (U-M), Phil Carns (Acxiom), David Metheny (Acxiom), Murali Vilayannur (VMWare), Dries Kimpe (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven), Scott Atchley (Myricom)

[project website]

Abstract:
Parallel I/O continues to be a topic of active development. Recent years have seen the creation of many new options. Even with these new choices, certain factors remain constant. Parallel applications need a fast I/O subsystem. Clusters need a parallel file system that can scale as the number of nodes increases to the thousands and tens of thousands. PVFS serves as both a platform for I/O research as well as a production file system for the cluster computing community.