With the digital information and application requirement on the Internet increasing fleetly nowadays,it is urgent to work out a network storage system with a large capacity,a high availability and scalability.To solve...With the digital information and application requirement on the Internet increasing fleetly nowadays,it is urgent to work out a network storage system with a large capacity,a high availability and scalability.To solve the above-mentioned issues,a NAS-based storage network(for short NASSN)has been designed.Firstly,the NASSN integrates multi-NAS,iNAS(an iSCSI-based NAS)and enterprise SAN with the help of storage virtualization,which can provide a greater capacity and better scalability.Secondly,the NASSN can provide high availability with the help of server and storage subsystem redundancy technologies.Thirdly,the NASSN simultaneously serves for both the file I/O and the block I/O with the help of an iSCSI module,which has the advantages of NAS and SAN.Finally,the NASSN can provide higher I/O speed by a high network-attached channel which implements the direct data transfer between the storage device and client.In the experiments,the NASSN has ultra-high-throughput for both of the file I/O requests and the block I/O requests.展开更多
The processing speed of the communication between nodes in a parallel processor has become the major bottleneck of the processor's performance.RDMA(Remote Direct Memory Access) technology has drawn more attention ...The processing speed of the communication between nodes in a parallel processor has become the major bottleneck of the processor's performance.RDMA(Remote Direct Memory Access) technology has drawn more attention recently due to its capability of transferring a larger amount of data, higher speed and reliability.4DSP(4 Digital Signal Processing) module comprised of Tiger-SHARC201 chip is connected by LVDS(Low Voltage Differential Signal) circuits.This paper proposes a general and reconfigurable RDMA platform and its corresponding communication protocol with all the routes linked based on the zero copy.The protocol transfers message of DSP by interrupting of DMA and is applied on massive remote image impression, which reduces memory needs and working burden of CPU.The experiment results show this platform is efficient, flexible, and expandable of being integrated to a larger scale in the next development stages.展开更多
基金Sponsored by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.60673191and90304011)Science Innovation Term Foundation of Guang-dong University of Foreign Studies(Grant No.GW2006-AT-005)Science Innovation Term Foundation of School of Informatics Guangdong University of Foreign Studies.
文摘With the digital information and application requirement on the Internet increasing fleetly nowadays,it is urgent to work out a network storage system with a large capacity,a high availability and scalability.To solve the above-mentioned issues,a NAS-based storage network(for short NASSN)has been designed.Firstly,the NASSN integrates multi-NAS,iNAS(an iSCSI-based NAS)and enterprise SAN with the help of storage virtualization,which can provide a greater capacity and better scalability.Secondly,the NASSN can provide high availability with the help of server and storage subsystem redundancy technologies.Thirdly,the NASSN simultaneously serves for both the file I/O and the block I/O with the help of an iSCSI module,which has the advantages of NAS and SAN.Finally,the NASSN can provide higher I/O speed by a high network-attached channel which implements the direct data transfer between the storage device and client.In the experiments,the NASSN has ultra-high-throughput for both of the file I/O requests and the block I/O requests.
基金Supported by the NSFC (National Natural Science Foundation of China)the 863 Program (2006AA1332)ERIPKU, the Program for New Century Excellent Talents in University.
文摘The processing speed of the communication between nodes in a parallel processor has become the major bottleneck of the processor's performance.RDMA(Remote Direct Memory Access) technology has drawn more attention recently due to its capability of transferring a larger amount of data, higher speed and reliability.4DSP(4 Digital Signal Processing) module comprised of Tiger-SHARC201 chip is connected by LVDS(Low Voltage Differential Signal) circuits.This paper proposes a general and reconfigurable RDMA platform and its corresponding communication protocol with all the routes linked based on the zero copy.The protocol transfers message of DSP by interrupting of DMA and is applied on massive remote image impression, which reduces memory needs and working burden of CPU.The experiment results show this platform is efficient, flexible, and expandable of being integrated to a larger scale in the next development stages.
