Supercomputing And Storage

Ken Wallgren

doi:10.1117/12.936857

14 January 1987 Supercomputing And Storage

Ken Wallgren

Proceedings Volume 0695, Optical Mass Data Storage II; (1987) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.936857
Event: 30th Annual Technical Symposium, 1986, San Diego, United States

Abstract

In the late 1990's supercomputers will have computational performance approaching one trillion floating point operations per second. These high performance systems will contain tens to hundreds of giga bytes of internal high speed memory either distributed, centralized or combined to provide the required bandwidth for efficient computation. The impact on the on-line storage and mass storage archive subsystems is estimated from actual user experience with current supercomputers. The on-line portion of the storage subsystem must satisfy the dual constraint of high capacity and very high transfer rates, while the mass storage portion may have greater capacity with a lower transfer rate requirement. The actual 1990's storage subsystem will be composed of both magnetic and optical disk and tape units. Some of the factors critical to design of the total storage subsystem are examined.

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Ken Wallgren "Supercomputing And Storage", Proc. SPIE 0695, Optical Mass Data Storage II, (14 January 1987); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.936857

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