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Zest Checkpoint storage system for large supercomputers

The PSC has developed a prototype distributed file system infrastructure that vastly accelerates aggregated write bandwidth on large compute platforms. Write bandwidth, more than read bandwidth, is the dominant bottleneck in HPC I/O scenarios due to writing checkpoint data, visualization data and post-processing (multi-stage) data. We have prototyped a scalable solution that will be directly applicable to future petascale compute platforms having of order 10^6 cores. Our design emphasizes high-efficiency scalability, low-cost commodity components, lightweight software layers, end-to-end parallelism, client-side caching and software parity, and a unique model of load-balancing outgoing I/O onto high-speed intermediate storage followed by asynchronous reconstruction to a 3rd-party parallel file system.