Benchmarking the PetaCache

Benchmarking Tools

• Open Source/source available
  • IOzone
  • FileBench

FileSystem Benchmarking Projects

• Project FSBench (SUNY-SB)
  • Main Page
  • Portal
  • A Nine Year Study of File System and Storage Benchmarking
  • Notes on a Nine Year Study of File System and Storage Benchmarking
• Parallel I/O Benchmarking Consortium (ANL)
  • Main Page
  • List of Benchmarks

Discussions of Flash

• Sun: Flash/ZFS
  • Sun News
  • ZDNet
  • ACM:Longer article
• Usenix FAST-10 Proceedings
  • DFS: A FileSystem for Virtualized Storage (Princeton/Fusion-io)
    Discussion of filesystem design using commercial flash drives (PCI-EX based). Design is an actual minimal filesystem, managed by the kernel. Loadable kernel module required – thus, superuser privs and kernel access needed. These filesystems might possibly be able to be exported via NFS.
    Benchmarks discussed include:
    • Micro benchmarks (write/read rate using Iozone (q.v.))
      Problems with their method: only two threads pounding on it.
    • Application benchmarks: Most not useful for us. 3/5 are either mem-mapped IO or database like.
  • Extending SSD Lifetimes with Disk-Based Write Caches (Slides) (Toronto/Microsoft)
  • Write Endurance in Flash Drives: Measurements and Analysis (Slides) (Northeastern)

Standalone Papers

• Benchmarking Parallel I/O Performance For a Large Scale Scientific Application on the Teragrid
• File System Workload Analysis For Large Scale Scientific Computing Applications
• PostMark: A New File System Benchmark

Other

• SLAC mstore
• HP SFS
• Parallel IO Examples & Benchmark Codes (Dartmouth)
• Open MPI
• Flash Core Set (FCS) (SLAC)