Vancouver, BC
May 21-24, 2018

Event Details

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Ceph and the CERN HPC Infrastructure

For the past 5 years, CERN IT has employed Ceph technology to build scale-out storage for our OpenStack cloud. For the block and object storage use-cases, with and without erasure coding, Ceph has demonstrated to be flexible and scalable while being resiliant to infrastructure failures.

But as our computing requirements evolve, the importance of a scale-out HPC filesystem is emerging. We therefore present usage of CephFS -- managed by Manila -- in production for our HPC and general IT infrastructure. We highlight the key metrics required by our users, including POSIX compliance, small-file latency, metadata throughput and scalability, and fault tolerance, while showing the results of industry-standard and new microbenchmarks.

Monday, May 21, 2:20pm-3:00pm (9:20pm - 10:00pm UTC)
Difficulty Level: Intermediate
CERN, Senior Staff Engineer
Arne Wiebalck is a systems engineer at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research. He studied physics and obtained a PhD in Computer Science from Heidelberg University in Germany, before he joined CERN more than 10 years ago. For several years he worked as a developer and engineer for CERN’s mass storage and distributed file systems. With the adoption of agile methods in CERN IT,... FULL PROFILE