A decade ago, data storage was a sideline activity in supercomputing — today, it is an essential part of the business. Each year, the HPCMP program now generates one-third the amount of information it has produced in its entire 15-year history. Meeting the next five years’ storage requirements will involve increasing the number of machines devoted to storage, improving mechanisms for predicting future storage needs, and possibly integrating algorithms into applications that allow users to catalog and define the storage period for new data.
A Strategy for Massive Archives
July 7, 2008