High Performance Interconnects

The development of interconnect-based storage solutions, technology allowing distributed clusters and storage over a common wide area network infrastructure, is becoming an emerging solution for data archiving and storage needs that has been doubling every 14 to 16 months since 1997.

Avetec is focused on the evaluation of and the development of metrics for data storage and archiving over wide area networks. The number of interconnect technology products and the large number of combinations of implementations make it critical to have a systematic approach. This would include research and development of an improved software stack, re-examination of the protocols and the development of a set of best practices.

Avetec is currently evaluating wide area network solutions, including InfiniBand and 10 Gigabit using real world architectures at existing sites. By leveraging the existing Data Intensive Computing Environment (DICE) test-bed infrastructure, vendors and researchers are working together to develop solutions that will greatly advance performance and utilization of high-end computing resources.