StoRM: A Manager for Storage Resource in Grid

Ghiselli, A. and Magnoni, L. and Zappi, R. (2009) StoRM: A Manager for Storage Resource in Grid. Il nuovo cimento C, 32 (2). pp. 273-277. ISSN 1826-9885

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Abstract

Nowadays, data intensive applications demand high-performance and large-storage systems capable of serving up to various Petabytes of storage space. Therefore, common solutions adopted in data centres include Storage Area Networks (SAN) and cluster parallel file systems, such as GPFS from IBM and Lustre from Sun Microsystems. In order to make these storage system solutions available in modern Data Grid architectures, standard interfaces are needed. The Grid Storage Resource Manager (SRM) interface is one of these standard interfaces. Grid storage services implementing the SRM standard provide common capabilities and advanced functionality such as dynamic space allocation and file management on shared storage systems. In this paper, we describe StoRM (STOrage Resource Manager). StoRM is a flexible and high-performing implementation of the standard SRM interface version 2.2. The software architecture of StoRM allows for an easy integration to different underlying storage systems via a plug-in mechanism. In particular, StoRM takes advantage from storage systems based on cluster file systems. Currently, StoRM is installed and used in production in various data centres, including the WLCG Italian Tier-1. In addition, Economics and Financial communities, as represented by the EGRID Project, adopt StoRM in production as well.

Item Type: Article
Uncontrolled Keywords: Computer science and technology
Subjects: 500 Scienze naturali e Matematica > 530 Fisica
Depositing User: Marina Spanti
Date Deposited: 25 Mar 2020 15:41
Last Modified: 25 Mar 2020 15:41
URI: http://eprints.bice.rm.cnr.it/id/eprint/16578

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