Texas Advanced Computing Center Deploys 20PB Big Data Hub using DataDirect Networks High-Performance Storage System
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Posted on June 20, 2013 at 7:42:01 AM
Texas Advanced Computing Center Deploys 20PB Big Data Hub using DataDirect Networks High-Performance Storage System
TACC Research Powered by DDN Storage Enables Breakthroughs in Brain Tumor Imaging, Black Hole Physics, Earthquake and Severe Weather Prediction
LEIPZIG, Germany, June 20, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- International Supercomputing Conference, DDN Booth #305
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News Facts
-- The Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) at The University of Texas in
Austin, one of the leading advanced computing centers in the world, is
using DataDirect Networks (DDN) to deploy a high-speed global parallel
file storage system accessible to all TACC resources and visualization
systems. The system will scale up and be easily expandable in the coming
years.
-- Since its founding in 2001, TACC has grown rapidly by enabling
discoveries that advance science and society through the application of
advanced computing technologies. With this growth, TACC also has seen
its data explode by more than 40 percent year-on-year.
-- Now with TACC's latest petascale HPC system in production, Stampede, and
more new systems coming in 2013, the center needed a high performance
storage solution that could connect all of TACC's computing and
visualization systems and scale seamlessly to anticipate research
demands in the future. After a competitive review, TACC selected DDN for
its price-performance and ability to scale the system 5x beyond the
initial purchased configuration.
-- Building on recent DDN HPC wins such as Oak Ridge National Laboratory
and Zuse Institute Berlin, this latest announcement with TACC reinforces
that compute-intensive organizations around the world continue to
validate DDN technology where total cost of ownership, scalability and
performance are critical requirements.
-- Using DDN(®) storage including SFA12K(®) and SFA7700( TM) platforms
and EXAScaler(TM) parallel file storage appliance, TACC has been able to
significantly decrease power, energy usage and costs, while dramatically
increasing its storage capacity as compared with its previous parallel
file storage system.
-- Using the Lustre file system running on DDN storage servers, TACC
increased its storage capacity and IO performance using an InfiniBand
connected file system with more than 20PB in capacity that delivers more
than 250GB/s+ in throughput to support nearly 10 petaflops (or 10
quadrillions calculations per second) of peak computing capability.
Tweet this: .@TACC supercomputers powered with @DDN_limitless storage help predict earthquakes http://bit.ly/11kgchm #BigData #HPC
Using DDN Storage, TACC Data-Defined Datacenter Infrastructure Supports Critical Research Advances
-- With more than 120 staff and students, TACC operates several of the most
powerful supercomputers and visualization systems in the world, and the
network and data storage infrastructure to support them.
-- Stampede, among other HPC systems at TACC, provides the computing power
for a variety of complex computational projects.
-- Researchers will use TACC computing resources powered by DDN storage to
support research across several different fields including brain tumor
imaging, black hole physics, and seismic hazard mapping. For example,
researchers from the Southern California Earthquake Center (SCEC) are
using Stampede to predict the frequency of damaging earthquakes in
California for the latest Uniform California Earthquake Rupture Forecast
(UCERT3) which forecasts the probability of all earthquakes throughout a
region and over a specified time span. This data is incorporated into
the U.S. Geological Survey's National Seismic Hazard Maps which are then
used to set building codes and insurance rates.
Supporting Quotes
Dr. Jay Boisseau, director of TACC, The University of Texas at Austin:
-- "TACC enables thousands of scientists to conduct groundbreaking research
that advances science and society using our powerful computing
technologies. We have to advance our capabilities rapidly to help enable
and accelerate their discoveries, and increasingly this depends on
providing massive data management and storage capabilities. We're
pleased to partner again with DDN to deploy a tremendous new resource
for open science depending on 'Big Data' -- a 20PB file system, fully
integrated with our powerful computing and visualization systems that
will continue to grow to support the research tackling the most
challenging problems."
-- "DDN's powerful and scalable storage solutions are exactly what we need
right now, as we grow our support for many new 'Big Data' problems in
science and engineering research. We want to help researchers solve the
most important and challenging problems, and this increasingly depends
on rapid access to massive data. This new DDN solution will provide a
foundation for researchers to analyze data and make new discoveries."
Supporting Resources
-- About DDN
-- About DDN's Supercomputing capabilities
-- About DDN EXAScaler
-- About SFA 12K
-- About Texas Advanced Computing Center at the University of Texas in
Austin
-- About Stampede
-- Follow DDN via Blog and Twitter
About DDN
DDN is the world leader in massively scalable storage. Our data storage and processing solutions and professional services enable content-rich and high growth IT environments to achieve the highest levels of systems scalability, efficiency and simplicity. DDN enables enterprises to extract value and deliver business results from their information. Our customers include the world's leading online content and social networking providers, high performance cloud and grid computing, life sciences, media production, and security and intelligence organizations. Deployed in thousands of mission critical environments worldwide, DDN's solutions have been designed, engineered and proven in the world's most scalable data centers to ensure competitive business advantage for today's information powered enterprise. For more information, go to http://www.ddn.com or call 1-800-837-2298.
©2013 All rights reserved. DDN, Storage Fusion Architecture, SFA12K, WOS, DirectMon, hScaler and Information In Motion are trademarks owned by DataDirect Networks. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.
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Sr. Director, Global Corporate Communications
Email: dkenison@ddn.com
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TACC Research Powered by DDN Storage Enables Breakthroughs in Brain Tumor Imaging, Black Hole Physics, Earthquake and Severe Weather Prediction
LEIPZIG, Germany, June 20, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- International Supercomputing Conference, DDN Booth #305
(Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20130223/MM65263LOGO)
News Facts
-- The Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) at The University of Texas in
Austin, one of the leading advanced computing centers in the world, is
using DataDirect Networks (DDN) to deploy a high-speed global parallel
file storage system accessible to all TACC resources and visualization
systems. The system will scale up and be easily expandable in the coming
years.
-- Since its founding in 2001, TACC has grown rapidly by enabling
discoveries that advance science and society through the application of
advanced computing technologies. With this growth, TACC also has seen
its data explode by more than 40 percent year-on-year.
-- Now with TACC's latest petascale HPC system in production, Stampede, and
more new systems coming in 2013, the center needed a high performance
storage solution that could connect all of TACC's computing and
visualization systems and scale seamlessly to anticipate research
demands in the future. After a competitive review, TACC selected DDN for
its price-performance and ability to scale the system 5x beyond the
initial purchased configuration.
-- Building on recent DDN HPC wins such as Oak Ridge National Laboratory
and Zuse Institute Berlin, this latest announcement with TACC reinforces
that compute-intensive organizations around the world continue to
validate DDN technology where total cost of ownership, scalability and
performance are critical requirements.
-- Using DDN(®) storage including SFA12K(®) and SFA7700( TM) platforms
and EXAScaler(TM) parallel file storage appliance, TACC has been able to
significantly decrease power, energy usage and costs, while dramatically
increasing its storage capacity as compared with its previous parallel
file storage system.
-- Using the Lustre file system running on DDN storage servers, TACC
increased its storage capacity and IO performance using an InfiniBand
connected file system with more than 20PB in capacity that delivers more
than 250GB/s+ in throughput to support nearly 10 petaflops (or 10
quadrillions calculations per second) of peak computing capability.
Tweet this: .@TACC supercomputers powered with @DDN_limitless storage help predict earthquakes http://bit.ly/11kgchm #BigData #HPC
Using DDN Storage, TACC Data-Defined Datacenter Infrastructure Supports Critical Research Advances
-- With more than 120 staff and students, TACC operates several of the most
powerful supercomputers and visualization systems in the world, and the
network and data storage infrastructure to support them.
-- Stampede, among other HPC systems at TACC, provides the computing power
for a variety of complex computational projects.
-- Researchers will use TACC computing resources powered by DDN storage to
support research across several different fields including brain tumor
imaging, black hole physics, and seismic hazard mapping. For example,
researchers from the Southern California Earthquake Center (SCEC) are
using Stampede to predict the frequency of damaging earthquakes in
California for the latest Uniform California Earthquake Rupture Forecast
(UCERT3) which forecasts the probability of all earthquakes throughout a
region and over a specified time span. This data is incorporated into
the U.S. Geological Survey's National Seismic Hazard Maps which are then
used to set building codes and insurance rates.
Supporting Quotes
Dr. Jay Boisseau, director of TACC, The University of Texas at Austin:
-- "TACC enables thousands of scientists to conduct groundbreaking research
that advances science and society using our powerful computing
technologies. We have to advance our capabilities rapidly to help enable
and accelerate their discoveries, and increasingly this depends on
providing massive data management and storage capabilities. We're
pleased to partner again with DDN to deploy a tremendous new resource
for open science depending on 'Big Data' -- a 20PB file system, fully
integrated with our powerful computing and visualization systems that
will continue to grow to support the research tackling the most
challenging problems."
-- "DDN's powerful and scalable storage solutions are exactly what we need
right now, as we grow our support for many new 'Big Data' problems in
science and engineering research. We want to help researchers solve the
most important and challenging problems, and this increasingly depends
on rapid access to massive data. This new DDN solution will provide a
foundation for researchers to analyze data and make new discoveries."
Supporting Resources
-- About DDN
-- About DDN's Supercomputing capabilities
-- About DDN EXAScaler
-- About SFA 12K
-- About Texas Advanced Computing Center at the University of Texas in
Austin
-- About Stampede
-- Follow DDN via Blog and Twitter
About DDN
DDN is the world leader in massively scalable storage. Our data storage and processing solutions and professional services enable content-rich and high growth IT environments to achieve the highest levels of systems scalability, efficiency and simplicity. DDN enables enterprises to extract value and deliver business results from their information. Our customers include the world's leading online content and social networking providers, high performance cloud and grid computing, life sciences, media production, and security and intelligence organizations. Deployed in thousands of mission critical environments worldwide, DDN's solutions have been designed, engineered and proven in the world's most scalable data centers to ensure competitive business advantage for today's information powered enterprise. For more information, go to http://www.ddn.com or call 1-800-837-2298.
©2013 All rights reserved. DDN, Storage Fusion Architecture, SFA12K, WOS, DirectMon, hScaler and Information In Motion are trademarks owned by DataDirect Networks. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.
DDN Media Contact:
Dani Kenison
Sr. Director, Global Corporate Communications
Email: dkenison@ddn.com
Work: 408-990-2658
SOURCE DDN (DataDirect Networks)
Photo:http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20130223/MM65263LOGO
http://photoarchive.ap.org/
DDN (DataDirect Networks)
Web Site: http://www.ddn.com