Gigabyte Per Second File Transfer in a Clustered Computing Environment
T. Pratt, J. Naegle, L. Martinez, M. Barnaby
Sandia National Laboratory

Description:
Cluster computation and high performance networks have opened the way for network file transfers that compete with the performance of local disk system.  We intend to demonstrate file transfer rates of 1 Gigabyte/sec transfer using parallel transfer methods developed by the ASCI's DISCOM program.

Terascale scientific simulations create terabytes of data.  This data generation capability can quickly swamp any size local filesystem.  The result of this is that the computer performance can end up being paced by its ability to transfer data out to other file systems.