TY  - JOUR
T1  - Deployment and Performance Analysis of Data Transfer Node Cluster for HPC Environment
AU  - Hong, Wontaek 
AU  - An, Dosik 
AU  - Lee, Jaekook 
AU  - Moon, Jeonghoon 
AU  - Seok, Woojin 
JO  - KIPS Transactions on Computer and Communication Systems
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/1/30
DO  - https://doi.org/10.3745/KTCCS.2020.9.9.197
KW  - DTN Cluster
KW  - Wide Area Network
KW  - Data Transfer
KW  - Science DMZ
KW  - Parallel Filesystem
AB  - Collaborative research in science applications based on HPC service needs rapid transfers of massive data between research colleagues over wide area network. With regard to this requirement, researches on enhancing data transfer performance between major superfacilities in the U.S. have been conducted recently. In this paper, we deploy multiple data transfer nodes(DTNs) over high-speed science networks in order to move rapidly large amounts of data in the parallel filesystem of KISTI’s Nurion supercomputer, and perform transfer experiments between endpoints with approximately 130ms round trip time. We have shown the results of transfer throughput in different size file sets and compared them. In addition, it has been confirmed that the DTN cluster with three nodes can provide about 1.8 and 2.7 times higher transfer throughput than a single node in two types of concurrency and parallelism settings.