Inter-node Communication in Peer-to-Peer Storage Clusters

Storage clusters try to transfer the idea of cluster com­ puting into the storage domain and to scale capacity and performance by simply adding new cluster components. This paper presents analytical considerations on the scal­ ability of storage clusters and presents a storage cluster architecture based on peer-to-peer computing that is able to scale up to hundreds of servers and clients. The result­ ing storage cluster environment has been successfully im­ plemented and tested on a Linux based HPC-cluster. The measurement results presented in this paper demonstrate the feasibility and scalability ofthis architecture.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2007
• Where: MSS
• Authors: André Brinkmann, Sascha Effert
• Keywords: Internet Technology, MSS 2007, Storage Cluster, Storage Cluster Architecture, Storage Cluster Environment