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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 11, 2017
Filed:
Mar. 31, 2014
Emc Corporation, Hopkinton, MA (US);
John M. Bent, Los Alamos, NM (US);
Sorin Faibish, Newton, MA (US);
Zhenhua Zhang, Beijing, CN;
Xuezhao Liu, Beijing, CN;
Haiying Tang, Beijing, CN;
EMC IP Holding Company LLC, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Abstract
A computer-executable method, system, and computer program product for managing meta-data in a distributed storage system, wherein the distributed storage system includes one or more burst buffers enabled to operate with a distributed key-value store, the co computer-executable method, system, and computer program product comprising receiving a request for meta-data associated with a block of data stored in a first burst buffer of the one or more burst buffers in the distributed storage system, wherein the meta data is associated with a key-value, determining which of the one or more burst buffers stores the requested metadata, and upon determination that a first burst buffer of the one or more burst buffers stores the requested metadata, locating the key-value in a portion of the distributed key-value store accessible from the first burst buffer.