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Non-Shared Disk Cluster - A Fault Tolerant, Commodity Approach to Hi-Bandwidth Data Analysis

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Overview The STAR experiment, in collaboration with the NERSC Scientific Data Management Group is prototyping / developing an approach to accomplish a high bandwidth data analysis capability using commodity components in a fault tolerant fashion. The prototype hardware consists of two small clusters of linux nodes (about 10 dual-CPU nodes), a few 100 GB local disk on each node. One cluster is at the RCF at Brookhaven and the other at PDSF at LBNL/NERSC. The local disk on each node is not exported on the network so that all processing of data occurs on processors with locally attached disk.

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Publisher	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	File Format	PDF
Date Published	August 2001
Format	White Papers
Topics	Bandwidth Issues, Data Mining - Analysis, Fault-Tolerant Servers

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