Solaris Multiplexed I/O

Solaris Multiplexed I/O (MPxIO), known also as Sun StorageTek Traffic Manager (SSTM, earlier Sun StorEdge Traffic Manager), is multipath I/O software for Solaris OS. It enables a storage device to be accessed through multiple host controller interfaces from a single operating system instance. The MPxIO architecture helps protect against I/O outages due to I/O controller failures. Should one I/O controller fail, MPxIO automatically switches to an alternate controller. This architecture also increases I/O performance by load balancing across multiple I/O channels. It was integrated within the Solaris operating system beginning in February 2000 with Solaris 8 release.

Storcloud
Storcloud was an initiative to provide high-performance mass storage to high performance computing applications. It existed, for several years running, in support of the annual International Conference for High Performance Computing and Communications also known as the Supercomputing Conference. Storcloud used SCinet infrastructure, in addition to its own internal network, in support of its mission. Storcloud was introduced to the SC Conference in 2004, and continued in 2005. Storcloud served at least two purposes. The manifest purpose of Storcloud was to provide high-performance storage in support of the conference presenters' applications. A secondary, but also important purpose was to serve as a showcase for vendors of high-performance storage systems: both to show their capabilities and ability to scale, and also to demonstrate interoperability with other vendors' storage and network solutions.

Transformer Read Only Storage

Transformer Read Only Storage (TROS) was a type of ROM used in the '60s and early '70s before solid state memory devices were developed. The idea of TROS was to create a Read Only Storage method to contain computer microcode. There were several implementation methods used but one notable method used the same technology as core memory that was the primary method of computer memory used during the same period. The specific method was called Core rope memory which used a ferrite core with wires strung through the core like a standard core memory but in some cores one of the wires would be routed around the core itself. The routing of this wire determined the interpretation of a 1 or a 0 with 1 representing a wire that ran through the core and a zero representing a wire that looped around the core.

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TROS memory was used as microcode in mainframe computers and also as microcode in intelligent controllers used to control sophisticated memory devices such as disk drives and tape drives. If there were a bug in the microcode it was possible to rework the memory by carefully rerouting the wire and thereby change the contents of memory.