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Dynamically Provisioning Cray DataWarp Storage
Complex applications and workflows needs are often exclusively expressed in
terms of computational resources on HPC systems. In many cases, other resources
like storage or network are not allocatable and are shared across the entire
HPC system. By looking at the storage resource in particular, any workflow or
application should be able to select both its preferred data manager and its
required storage capability or capacity. To achieve such a goal, new mechanisms
should be introduced. In this work, we introduce such a mechanism for
dynamically provision a data management system on top of storage devices. We
particularly focus our effort on deploying a BeeGFS instance across multiple
DataWarp nodes on a Cray XC50 system. However, we also demonstrate that the
same mechanism can be used to deploy BeeGFS on non-Cray system