Patent ID: 8438244
Filing Date: 2013-05-07
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A system comprising: at least one storage node having one or more network interface components and one or more storage units configured to store data, the network interface components having a collective bandwidth that is proportionate to a collective bandwidth of the storage units, the storage node being configured to communicate to and from other nodes at the collective bandwidth of the storage units; at least one computation node having a processor, logic configured to read or write data to the at least one storage node, and one or more network interface components, each network interface component having an associated bandwidth; and one or more switches connecting the at least one storage node to the at least one computation node such that a collective bandwidth available between the at least one computation node and the at least one storage node is greater than or equal to a smaller of either the collective bandwidth of the storage units on the at least one storage node or a collective bandwidth of the network interface components of the at least one computation node.