Should NERSC use Cloud Storage?
September 28, 2012
Jason Hick
Berkeley Lab
NERSC
In this presentation, the NERSC Storage Systems Group will discuss how three different cloud storage solutions that aim to provide durable scalable storage to consumers might look handling the current HPSS workload. The goal of the talk is to discuss the benefits and risks associated with the solutions to determine whether further investigation is warranted.
About NERSC and Berkeley Lab
The National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) is the primary high-performance computing facility for scientific research sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Science. Located at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, the NERSC Center serves more than 4,000 scientists at national laboratories and universities researching a wide range of problems in combustion, climate modeling, fusion energy, materials science, physics, chemistry, computational biology, and other disciplines. Berkeley Lab is a U.S. Department of Energy national laboratory located in Berkeley, California. It conducts unclassified scientific research and is managed by the University of California for the U.S. DOE Office of Science. For more information about computing sciences at Berkeley Lab, please visit www.lbl.gov/cs.
