HPC-SBC: An Experimental Effort to Evaluate Storage in High-Performance Computing Configurations Using a Context Approach

In this article we present the challenges and efforts to evaluate the secondary memory performance of nodes from cluster architectures, for utilization in cluster-like environments in HPC, or data centers, such as the Grid’5000 computing environment. The proposal is a tool for general analysis of these experimental environments and including a preliminary study of the tools available to evaluate the performance of the nodes storage. There were some limitations in evaluating tools for secondary memory performance analysis. As a result, the proposal tool, called HPC-SBC (HPC Storage Benchmark Context), is presented. The proposal is an experimental effort to evaluate storage in high-performance computing configurations adopting a context approach. The initial results indicate the success of the proposal, as it is shown the nodes with the best storage performance.