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

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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

Author: conference

Email: someone@microsoft.com

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