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Recent advances in large-capacity, low-cost storage devices have led to active research in design of large-scale storage systems built from commodity devices for super-computing applications. Such storage systems, composed of thousands of storage devices, are required to provide high system bandwidth and petabyte-scale data storage. A robust network interconnection is essential to achieve high bandwidth, low latency, and reliable delivery during data transfers. However, failures, such as temporary link out-ages and node crashes, are inevitable. We discuss the impact of potential failures on network interconnections in very large-scale storage systems and analyze the trade-offs among several storage network topologies by simulations. Our results suggest that a good interconnect topology be essential to fault-tolerance of a petabyte-scale storage system. © 2005 IEEE. |
