ASC Program Elements

• Integrated
  Codes
• Physics and
  Engineering Models
• Verification &
  Validation
• Computational Systems &
  Software Environment
• Facility Operations
  and User Support

I/O, Storage Systems and Networking

This Level 4 product provides I/O (input/output, or data transfer) and storage infrastructure in balance wih all platforms and consistent with integrated system architecture plans. The procurement of all supporting subsystems, and data transfer and storage systems and infrastructures occurs through this product. The scope of this product includes planning, research, development, procurement, hardware maintenance, integration and deployment, continuing product support, and quality and reliability activities, as well as industrial and academic collaborations. Projects and technologies include high-performance parallel file systems, hierarchical storage management (HSM) systems, storage-area-networks (SANs), network-attached-storage (NAS), and High Performance Storage System (HPSS) or future HSM system disks, tape, robotics, servers, and media. This product also includes relevant prototype deployment and testbed activities. Projects and technologies in the advanced networking and interconnect areas shall include networking and interconnect architectures, emerging networking hardware technologies and communication protocols, network performance/security monitoring/analysis tools and high performance encryption and security technologies.