TALICS$^3$: Tape Library Cloud Storage System Simulator
<|reference_start|>TALICS$^3$: Tape Library Cloud Storage System Simulator: High performance computing data is surging fast into the exabyte-scale world, where tape libraries are the main platform for long-term durable data storage besides high-cost DNA. Tape libraries are extremely hard to model, but accurate modeling is critical for system administrators to obtain valid performance estimates for their designs. This research introduces a discrete--event tape simulation platform that realistically models tape library behavior in a networked cloud environment, by incorporating real-world phenomena and effects. The platform addresses several challenges, including precise estimation of data access latency, rates of robot exchange, data collocation, deduplication/compression ratio, and attainment of durability goals through replication or erasure coding. Using the {proposed} simulator, {one can} compare the single enterprise configuration with multiple commodity library configurations, making it a useful tool for system administrators and reliability engineers. This makes the simulator a valuable tool for system administrators and reliability engineers, enabling them to acquire practical and dependable performance estimates for their enduring, cost-efficient cold data storage architecture designs.<|reference_end|>
@article{arslan2024talics$^3$:,
    title={TALICS$^3$: Tape Library Cloud Storage System Simulator},
    author={Suayb S. Arslan, James Peng, Turguy Goker},
    journal={Simulation Modelling Practice and Theory, Volume 134, 2024, 102947},
    year={2024},
    doi={10.1016/j.simpat.2024.102947},
    archivePrefix={arXiv},
    eprint={2405.00003},
    primaryClass={cs.DC cs.SY eess.SY}
}