An Object-Based Storage System Based on Custom-Built High-Performance Interconnects

The trend as such makes it very promising to build a scalable I/O system for high-performance computing through the implementation of an object-based storage system based on high-performance interconnects.We design and implement a custom-built high-performance,low latency interconnects chip HSNI,which provides a very good performance of communication,and can be used to build object-based storage systems.Firstly,we introduce the hardware architecture,the software structure and the communication mechanism of HSNI.Then we implement an object-based storage system based on HSNI.The experimental results show HSNI can provide high bandwidth,low latency data transfer,and is very suitable for building object-based storage systems,and the storage systems based on HSNI can exert the performance of Lustre effectively with good scalability,which satisfies the demands of the I/O system for high-performance computing perfectly.