SimFS: A Simulation Data Virtualizing File System Interface

Understand

Nowadays simulations can produce petabytes of data to be stored in parallel filesystems or large-scale databases.

• This data is accessed over the course of decades often by thousands of analysts and scientists.
• However, storing these volumes of data for long periods of time is not cost effective and, in some cases, practically impossible.
• We propose to transparently virtualize the simulation data, relaxing the storage requirements by not storing the full output and re-simulating the missing data on demand.