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READIT - 2009 - Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research

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Users<br />

LAN switch<br />

Library Server<br />

SAN Fabric Layer<br />

(Fiber channel)<br />

SAN Device<br />

With RAID firmware<br />

Storage Devices through Storage Access Network (SAN) Layer<br />

An iSCSI is basically the SCSI disk control protocol over IP (internet protocol). It is<br />

also like a SAN, iSCSI is a dumb-bag-of-bit, and the client that owns a block of data is<br />

responsible <strong>for</strong> its management. It is inexpensive storage device and price ranges between<br />

NAS and SAN.<br />

3. PARALLEL PROCESSING TECHNOLOGY<br />

Few factors are considered while designing the knowledge warehouse. i) Speed up –<br />

The ability to execute the users request on the large amount of data in less time. ii) Scale up –<br />

The ability to obtain the better per<strong>for</strong>mance on the user’s request as the data base size<br />

increases. The data from the library warehouse will be accessed and processed by many<br />

people simultaneously. This brings in the need <strong>for</strong> good at processing and parallel systems.<br />

Clusters improve per<strong>for</strong>mance and/or availability over that of a single computer, and much<br />

more cost-effective than single computers of comparable speed or availability.<br />

High-Availability (HA) clusters are implemented <strong>for</strong> improving the availability of<br />

services. The HA cluster should have at least two nodes, to provide redundancy when failure<br />

occurs. HA cluster implementations attempt to use redundancy of cluster components to<br />

eliminate single points of failure. High Per<strong>for</strong>mance Computing (HPC) clusters are<br />

implemented <strong>for</strong> improving the per<strong>for</strong>mance of the CPU throughput. Hence scientific<br />

computing, structured analysis, modeling software and weather <strong>for</strong>ecasting systems use HPC<br />

clusters.

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