A bit of History
1990 – Supercomputer Centers operating with HUGE disk farms of 50-100 GB!
1994 – Built a 1+TB array of disks with a single SGI xFS file system and wrote a single 1TB file
- Used 4GB disks in 7+1 RAID 5 disk arrays
- 36 disk arrays mounted in 5 racks
1997 ASCI Mountain Blue - 75TB - distributed
2002 ASCI Q – 700TB – online, high performance, pushing limits of traditional [legacy] block-based file systems
2004 ASCI Red Storm – 240TB – online, high bandwidth, massively parallel
2005 ASCI Purple – 3000TB – online, high performance, OSD/Lustre
2006 NASA RDS – 6000TB – online, global access, CAS,OSD, Data Grids, Lustre?