Section: New Software and Platforms

BlobSeer

BlobSeer : A Storage System For The Exascale Era

Keywords: Versioning - HPC - Cloud storage - Distributed metadata - MapReduce

Scientific Description: BlobSeer is a large-scale distributed storage service that addresses advanced data management requirements resulting from ever-increasing data sizes. It is centered around the idea of leveraging versioning for concurrent manipulation of binary large objects in order to efficiently exploit data-level parallelism and sustain a high throughput despite massively parallel data access.

Functional Description: BlobSeer is a large-scale distributed storage service for advanced management of massive data. Validated on Nimbus, OpenNebula and Microsoft Azure cloud platforms.

• Participants: Bogdan Nicolae, Gabriel Antoniu and Luc Bougé

• Partners: Université de Rennes 1 - ENS Cachan

• Contact: Gabriel Antoniu

• URL: http://blobseer.gforge.inria.fr/