Fermilab's Multi-Petabyte Scalable Mass Storage System

Fermilab provides a multi-Petabyte scale mass storage system for High Energy Physics (HEP) Experiments and other scientific endeavors. We describe the scalability aspects of the hardware and software architecture that were designed into the Mass Storage System to permit us to scale to multiple petabytes of storage capacity, manage tens of terabytes per day in data transfers, support hundreds of users, and maintain data integrity. We discuss in detail how we scale the system over time to meet the ever-increasing needs of the scientific community, and relate our experiences with many of the technical and economic issues related to scaling the system. Since the 2003 MSST conference, the experiments

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2005
• Where: MSS
• Authors: Gene Oleynik, Bonnie Alcorn, Wayne Baisley, Jon Bakken, David Berg, Eileen Berman, Chih-Hao Huang, Terry Jones, Robert D. Kennedy, Alexander Kulyavtsev, Alexander Moibenko, Timur Perelmutov, Donald Petravick, Vladimir Podstavkov, George Szmuksta, Michael Zalokar
• Keywords: Mass Storage System, MSS 2005, Scale Mass Storage, Scientific Endeavors