Callisto Media Systems Voyager Video Services Platform

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Callisto Media Systems Voyager - Video Services
Platform
Voyager Product and Features http//www.callisto.c
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Voyager Interconnection Architecture (VIA)
Concepts
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Voyager Interconnect Architecture (VIA)
A fully connected graph of computing nodes with
all system storage devices and access ports
residing on shared buses between processing nodes.
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Single node Configuration
CPU, Memory etc.
Processing Node
Cache Disks (1 to 11)
Archive disks (1 to 12)
- Archive Storage (HSM) - User Access Ports
E250 can support up to 6 disks (36GB),2
CPU SF280-R can support 2 internal disk (72GB), 2
CPU E450 can support up to 20 disks (36 GB), 4
CPU V880 can support up to 12 disks (72 GB), 8 CPU
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FibreChannel VIA Layout Basic Building Blocks
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5 Node Configuration10 VIA Buses
Node 3
Notes 1. Architectural limitation based on nodal
fan-out 2. Technology limitation based on VIA
Bus, CPU Back-plane Bandwidths E N(N-1)
2 Edges E (10) No of Nodes N (5)
VIA Bus
VIA Bus
VIA Buses
VIA Bus
VIA Bus
VIA Bus
Node 2
Node 1
Storage Devices Network Connections
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VIA Features

• Number of storage devices limited only by H/W
  technology
• Large number of access ports
• Multiple load sharing access to all devices
• High aggregate I/O and processing bandwidth
• Scalable from one to many building blocks
• No single system failure point
• Architected for technology change

Flexibility, Scalability, Modularity, Distributed
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Voyager S/W Concepts

• H/W platform independence via a Foundation
  layer
• Compression independent
• Nodal centric system view
• Message based communications
• Services provided by distributed, request
  specific agents
• Node specific resource managers
• Resources located by broadcast requests

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System Self Discovery

• Dynamically builds all databases
• Dynamically identifies all disks, buses,
  bandwidth
• System will search out and discover all content,
  its location and details
• Easy to add new device types

Reduced Support and Mngmt.
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Voyager Database Concepts

• No centralized master of any database or device
• Internal databases dynamically created,
  distributed synchronized
• Database object located by multi-node broadcast
  request
• Responses limited to positive acknowledgements
  only
• Object locks based on strategic decisions
• Object locks based on priority decisions

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Flexible Platform

• Technology, hardware and compression
  independent
• Suitable for storage and streaming applications
• Scalable from small to very large systems
• Flexible, scalable adaptive in function,
  capacity applications
• Build systems of greater capability than the
  component parts
• Mix of storage access ports adjustable to
  suit application
• Hierarchical Storage Management

Architecture NOT Hardware Technology
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Voyager Collaborative Architecture(VCA)
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Families Communities

• A Family
• Is a Voyager system (single or multiple nodes)
• A closely coupled system
• A Community
• Is formed by at least 2 Families agreeing to
  collaborate
• Each Family identifies its Community members
• A Family can belong to more than one Community
• Each Familys view of its Community may be
  different
• A loosely coupled system

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Communities

• Each Family in the Community
• Agrees to share meta-data and content
• Operates as an independent Voyager system
• Provides read only access to other community
  members
• Extracts content from other community members
  brings it in to their own cache for delivery
• Have the ability to distinguish between
• Private content (local Family use only) and
• Public content (available to Community members)
• Hidden content (only to local server)
• Automatic removal of content brought in
• After a certain date
• On completion of viewing

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Community Concepts
Collaborative Access to/from Anywhere
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Geographically Distributed Sites Hub and Spoke
Model
Central Ops Archive
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Content Distribution ArchitectureCascading Model