PMIx Support for Storage Systems

RFC0021

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Abstract

Exascale systems expect to access information that resides in an array of storage media, ranging from offline archives to streaming data flows. This "tiered storage" architecture presents a challenge to application developers and system managers striving to achieve high system efficiency and performance. Multiple vendor-specific packages have been developed, each with its own unique API and associated data structures. However, this results in a corresponding loss in application portability and increased cost of customer migration across procurements.

These API and attribute definitions are based on recognition that gaining multi-vendor agreement on common interfaces and data structures is a difficult and long-term objective. Thus, this RFC proposes a more flexible approach that allows vendor independence by defining an abstraction layer for passing storage-related requests and directives based on PMIx APIs and data structures.

Labels

[EXTENSION][CLIENT-API][SERVER-API][RM-INTERFACE]

Action

[IN PROGRESS]

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Description

Protoype Implementation

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