Storage Systems - Projects

Data Integrity Protection Schemes: Techniques and algorithms to detect, report and correct silent data corruption events while maintaining system performance.

RAID Storage System for Petascale Supercomputers: IBM’s Programmable Easy-to-use Reliable Computing System (PERCS), chosen by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), is one of two system designs to be developed and demonstrated as part of phase III of the High Productivity Computing Systems program (HPCS).

Storage Platform Resiliency: Evaluate and identify different system architectural techniques to increase software resiliency while maintaining existing storage system software investment.

Tiburon: IBM’s DS8000 Storage server is built on the POWER5 architecture platform, which supports logical partitions, or LPARs. The Tiburon project in Research explores the synergy between storage and servers by offloading appropriate application functions (including middleware such as DB2) into virtual machines running on storage controllers, to achieve better end-to-end value for our customers.

Wise Ordering of Writes: A novel and simple algorithm to manage nonvolatile write caches by combining temporal and spatial locality in an elegant way.

GPFS: General Parallel File System (GPFS) is a scalable, parallel, cluster file product that originated as Almaden's Tiger Shark file system. It now supports IBM® Blue Gene® and IBM® ™ Cluster systems, including the Linux (Cluster 1350) and the AIX (Cluster 1600) systems.

GPFS for Petascale Supercomputers: IBM’s Programmable Easy-to-use Reliable Computing System (PERCS), chosen by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), is one of two system designs to be developed and demonstrated as part of phase III of the High Productivity Computing Systems program (HPCS).

Glamour: An NFSv4-based file system federation middleware layer that enables clients to seamlessly navigate data spread across multiple, heterogeneous and widely distributed file servers. Glamour is not a globally distributed file system. Instead, it enables a set of loosely coupled file servers to function as one.

Scale-out File Serving: Provides a gateway solution that broadens the range of environments that can benefit from storage consolidation and advanced data management.

Storage Management: Our vision is to develop integrated storage network analytics & performance management tools to aid policy-based autonomic resource provisioning of storage networks on IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center (TPC), an open solution designed to manage complex, heterogeneous storage infrastructure.

Intelligent Data Storage: Organizations are under increasing pressure to properly retain and manage their records. The Intelligent Data Storage (IDS) project is a collaborative effort between the storage systems and computer science teams to develop techniques and solutions for handling new and emerging forms of archive.

Mirage: Mirage is an intelligent out-of-band storage optimization engine that provides autonomic analytics for optimal storage resource allocation, migration, consolidation and tiering in complex virtualized data center environments. An important philosophy of Mirage is to provide time-tested solutions that minimize configuration changes into the distant future.

SMART: Storage Management Analytics and Reasoning Technology (SMART) is a self-evolving, corrective action engine that optimizes storage-resource allocation in a fully automated, cost-efficient way so most clients experience predictable performance in their accesses to a shared, large-scale storage utility.

Storage Management for Petascale Supercomputers: IBM’s Programmable Easy-to-use Reliable Computing System (PERCS), chosen by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), is one of two system designs to be developed and demonstrated as part of phase III of the High Productivity Computing Systems program (HPCS).