A Network-Aware Object Storage Service

Abstract

This study describes a trial for establishing a network-aware object storage service. For scientific applications that need huge amounts of remotely stored data, the cloud infrastructure has functionalities to provide a service called `cluster as a service' and an inter-cloud object storage service. The scientific applications move from locations with constrained resources to locations where they can be executed practically. The inter-cloud object storage service has to be network-aware in order to perform well.