With the prevalence of cloud computing, research on cloud storage systems has become increasingly significant because the quality of services that users can enjoy is closely bound to the design of these systems. Among them, block storage systems (e.g., Amazon EBS, OpenStack Cinder) are undoubtedly the ones of the most important as they directly provide infrastructural block storage for virtual machines in clouds. Meanwhile, the development of solid state drives offers cloud providers a great potential to fuel the performance of block storage in clouds.
Unfortunately, despite of this great potential, completely building cloud-scale storage systems based on SSDs is still commercially exorbitant. Aiming to bridge this gap, sixiang has developed a hybrid storage system named MOBBS that is able to provide SSD/HDD block storage for VMs in clouds according to real-time workloads. This work was performed in Intel Asia-Pacific where sixiang was an intern at the team of Cloud Technology Enabling. This work has been published at the 20th IEEE ICPADS, which took place at Hsinchu, Taiwan. The above picture was shot at the 2014 ICPADS conference when sixiang was presenting his research.
The above picture was shot at the ICPADS 2014, which took place at Hsinchu, Taiwan, 2014.12.16-2014.12.19