EMC, Triad National Security and UT-Battelle Assigned Patent

EMC Corporation, (now Dell-EMC), Hopkinton, MA, Triad National Security, LLC, Los Alamos, NM, and UT-Battelle, LLC, Oak Ridge, TN, has been assigned a patent (10,375,164) developed by Bent, John M., Los Alamos, NM, Faibish, Sorin, Newton, MA, Grider, Gary, Torres, Aaron, Los Alamos, NM, and Poole, Stephen W., Knoxville, TN, for a “parallel storage system with burst buffer appliance for storage of partitioned key-value store across a plurality of storage tiers.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”Parallel storage systems are provided with a burst buffer appliance for storage of a partitioned key-value store across a plurality of storage tiers. The burst buffer appliance is configured to store key-value data on first and second storage tiers comprising respective disjoint subsets of storage. One or more servers in the partitioned key-value store provide, (i) an interface between one or more local key-value stores and one or more additional storage architectures, and/or, (ii) a key value interface that provides access to at least one hardware key-value store. The local key-values are optionally sorted both locally by the local store and globally by the overall MDHIM framework. The local and global sorting can be leveraged to provide batch input/output, (IO) operations that aggregate multiple requests into batch operations on one or more sorted ranges.”

The patent application was filed on December 30, 2013 (14/143,749).