POSTER: An innovative storage stack addressing extreme scale platforms and Big Data applications

Current production HPC IO stack design is unlikely to offer sufficient features and performance to adequately serve extreme scale science platform requirements as well as Big Data problems. A joint effort between the US Department of Energy´s Office of Advanced Simulation and Computing and Advanced Scientific Computing Research commissioned a project to develop a design and prototype for an IO stack suitable for the extreme scale environment. It will be referred to as the Fast Forward Storage and IO (FFSIO) project. This is a joint effort led by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, with the DOE Data Management Nexus leads Rob Ross and Gary Grider as coordinators and contract lead Mark Gary.