Large-scale storage simulation framework for high performance computing (hpc) environments

A computer system comprising:

• a hardware processor;
• a non-transitory computer-readable medium comprising instructions for performing a method comprising:
• initializing a node-local burst buffer (“BB”) component, a computer-node component, a parallel file system component, a remote-shared burst buffer component, a node-local BB network configuration, and a remote-shared burst buffer network configuration,
• determining a rate of data flowing condition to alter between states to control a rate of data flowing through a computer network system;
• determining a data to move condition to allow data to move from the computer node to the burst buffer or the burst buffer to the parallel file system;
• determining a simulation condition for a simulation to begin, reset, pause, or terminate;
• performing a simulation flow using networked compute nodes in a networked simulation;
• and
• generating a computer output based on the simulation flow for network analysis.

A non-transitory computer-readable medium comprising instructions for performing a method comprising:

• initializing a node-local burst buffer (“BB”) component, a computer-node component, a parallel file system component, a remote-shared burst buffer component, a node-local BB network configuration, and a remote-shared burst buffer network configuration,
• determining a rate of data flowing condition to alter between states to control a rate of data flowing through a computer network system;
• determining a data to move condition to allow data to move from the computer node to the burst buffer or the burst buffer to the parallel file system;
• determining a simulation condition for a simulation to begin, reset, pause, or terminate;
• performing a simulation flow using networked compute nodes in a networked simulation;
• and
• generating a computer output based on the simulation flow for network analysis.