Storage Bricks Jim Gray Microsoft Research http://Research.Micrsoft.com/~Gray/talks FAST 2002 Monterey, CA, 29 Jan 2002 Acknowledgements: Dave Patterson explained this to me long ago Leonard Chung Kim Keeton Erik Riedel Catharine Van Ingen
First Disk 1956
10 years later
Disk Evolution
Disks are becoming computers
Data Gravity Processing Moves to Transducers smart displays, microphones, printers, NICs, disks
It’s Already True of Printers Peripheral = CyberBrick
The Absurd Design?
The “Absurd” Disk
Disk = Node
Implications
Intermediate Step: Shared Logic
Example
What if Disk Replaces Tape? How does it work?
It’s Hard to Archive a Petabyte It takes a LONG time to restore it.
Archive to Disk 100TB for 0.5M$ + 1.5 “free” petabytes
Disk as Tape Archive
Disk as Tape Interchange
Disk As Tape Interchange: What format?
Some Questions
What is the Product?
How Does Scale Out Work?
Auto Manage Storage
Admin: TB and “guessed” $/TB (does not include cost of application, overhead, not “substance”)
How do I manage 10,000 nodes?
How do I program 10,000 nodes?
Summary
Email: someone@microsoft.com
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