MILPITAS, Calif., Nov. 9, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- LSI Corporation
(NYSE: LSI) today announced that PSSC Labs has selected LSI™ 3ware®
6Gb/s SATA+SAS RAID controller cards for integration with its
PowerWulf Cluster high-performance computing (HPC) solutions. The
combination of LSI 3ware 9750 series controllers and PowerWulf
Clusters is designed to provide researchers in the life sciences
community with a high-performance, turnkey solution capable of
addressing both the computational and data capacity requirements of
genome sequencing applications.
"Genome sequencing research can produce terabytes of data in a
single run, putting immense pressure on computer processing power
and data storage capacity," said Alex
Lesser, vice president, PSSC Labs. "LSI's products are
extremely reliable, easy to configure and cost effective. They are
a perfect match for our specifications and the laborious
requirements of our end customers."
PSSC Labs PowerWulf Clusters are high-performance computing
systems, which include the Raid Station VPR-NXXL, the storage
solution within the system. Raid Station VPR series solutions are
powered by 3ware RAID technologies, which help optimize and
increase system performance, allowing researchers to conduct more
sequencing runs and focus on experiments and analysis rather than
management of the cluster.
PSSC Labs selected LSI 3ware RAID controllers over competitive
solutions based on the high performance and proven reliability they
achieved in PSSC Labs' rigorous testing processes. Internal tests
conducted for Raid Station products, even when using
lower-performance 3Gb/s SATA drives, yielded sequential throughput
performance exceeding 1TB per second, with reads of up to
1,100MB/sec and writes of up to 946MB/sec.(1)
PowerWulf Clusters also provide massive amounts of available
RAID storage space. Each PowerWulf Cluster includes a minimum of
10TB of available storage, which can be easily expanded to several
hundred terabytes. Utilizing LSI 600 series JBOD storage
enclosures, which are fully compatible with LSI 3ware RAID
controllers, users can cost-effectively expand and scale storage
capacity to meet rapidly escalating data volumes.
"In genome sequencing labs, scientists are undertaking
potentially life-changing research, and it is essential that their
efforts are not hindered by the limitations of information
technology," said Brent Blanchard,
worldwide channel sales and marketing director, LSI. "LSI has a
long and successful history of delivering high-performance storage
solutions to government and university-based labs and private
research institutions. We're excited that PSSC Labs has selected
LSI 3ware RAID technologies to boost the storage capabilities of
their HPC systems for life sciences research."
LSI 3ware SATA+SAS RAID controllers and LSI 600 series JBODs are
available through a worldwide network of distributors, integrators
and VARs. Additional product information is available at the LSI
Channel Gateway (www.lsi.com/channel).
About LSI
LSI Corporation (NYSE: LSI) is a leading provider of innovative
silicon, systems and software technologies that enable products,
which seamlessly bring people, information and digital content
together. The company offers a broad portfolio of capabilities and
services including custom and standard product ICs, adapters,
systems and software that are trusted by the world's best known
brands to power leading solutions in the Storage and Networking
markets. More information is available at www.lsi.com.
(1) Actual test included two LSI 3ware 9650SE-12 port 3Gb/s SATA
controllers running RAID 5, LVM striped into one volume under
XFS.
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