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National Center for Atmospheric Research storage accounting and analysis possibilities
Author(s) -
Hart David L.,
Gillman Pam,
Thanhardt Erich
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
concurrency and computation: practice and experience
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.309
H-Index - 67
eISSN - 1532-0634
pISSN - 1532-0626
DOI - 10.1002/cpe.3228
Subject(s) - petascale computing , computer science , data center , track (disk drive) , atmospheric research , computer data storage , data management , resource (disambiguation) , database , data science , operations research , operating system , meteorology , engineering , computer network , physics , scalability
SUMMARY While most high‐performance computing system operators diligently track computing usage and utilization on a job‐by‐job basis, far fewer sites have implemented mechanisms for tracking and accounting for usage of their storage systems. As we enter an era of larger and larger data holdings, the need to monitor, track, and analyze users' consumption of storage resources becomes more critical for planning, operating, and managing petascale storage environments. The National Center for Atmospheric Research has long had a formal accounting mechanism in place for its archival storage system and has recently extended a similar mechanism to its recently acquired 11‐PB disk resource. The collected data help National Center for Atmospheric Research's users manage their data holdings, provide administrators with reporting and analysis capabilities to guide the use and management of these vital resources, and offer necessary information to support data management policies. Copyright © 2014 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.