Tsinghua University Assigned Patent

Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, has been assigned a patent (10,997,025) developed by Zhang, Guangyan, and Zheng, Weimin, Beijing, China, for a “RAID-based globally resource-shared data storage system.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”The data storage system is a RAID-based data storage system in which resources are globally shared. This storage system includes the first number of disks, and the RAID mechanism is used to store data on each disk. The blocks on different disks form stripes, and at least one of the blocks on the stripe stores the parity information, wherein the width of the stripe is less than the first number. The data layout of the data storage system satisfies the following characteristics: any two physical blocks in the stripe are distributed on different disks, the data blocks distributed on each disk are the same, and the distributed parity blocks are also the same, other data in the stripe associated with any piece of disk data is evenly distributed across all the remaining disks. Normal data layout and degraded data layout can be implemented by orthogonal Latin squares. This system can remove the limitation that the number of disks in the normal data storage system is equal to the stripe width, and break the resource isolation between the disk groups. And in the event of a disk failure, this invention can achieve a complete equalization of the reconstructed read load.”

The patent application was filed on April 23, 2020 (Appl. No.16/856,133).