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In this paper, we analyzed the performance of various robotically-accessed tape libraries for supercomputing workloads. We used an event-driven simulator to conduct the performance analysis, and we considered the workloads at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) and the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA). The simulation results showed that tape libraries with adequate performance parameters perform quite well on the supercomputing workloads, thus they are promising to be an important part of the mass storage systems used in the supercomputing environments. The results also showed that the tape drive forward search and rewind rate is the bottleneck in the tape libraries used under the supercomputing workloads.
This research was supported in part by the Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champai]gn.
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Hamzaoglu, I., Simitci, H. (2002). Performance Analysis of Tape Libraries for Supercomputing Environments. In: Pollard, A., Mewhort, D.J.K., Weaver, D.F. (eds) High Performance Computing Systems and Applications. The International Series in Engineering and Computer Science, vol 541. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/0-306-47015-2_54
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