LSI High-Performance Storage Featured in U.S. Department of Energy Research Center's New Cray Supercomputer
November 17 2009 - 8:00AM
PR Newswire (US)
LSI Engenio 7900 HPC storage systems provide the performance and
reliability required to meet supercomputing demands of NERSC's
3,000 users PORTLAND, Ore., Nov. 17 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- SC09
-- LSI Corporation (NYSE:LSI) today announced that 23 LSI(TM)
Engenio® 7900 HPC storage systems will be installed at the
Department of Energy's (DOE) National Energy Research Scientific
Computing Center (NERSC) as part of a next-generation Cray
supercomputing system. NERSC will augment their facility and the
existing 352 teraflop Cray XT4(TM) system with a new Cray
supercomputer. The first phase of the augmentation project, which
is now undergoing early testing, incorporates a Cray XT5(TM)
supercomputer featuring 23 LSI Engenio HPC storage systems. The
high-performance LSI storage will enable NERSC to store up to 2.7
petabytes (PB) of scientific data with a sustained data transfer
rate of 25 GB/s. The full Cray supercomputing solution is expected
to go into production in late 2010. "With more than 3,000
researchers, NERSC's workload stresses all aspects of the systems
we deploy," said NERSC Director Kathy Yelick. "As scientific
computing capabilities continue to grow, it is critical that our
supporting storage infrastructure provides the performance and data
protection required to enable the next big scientific
breakthrough." Sponsored by the DOE's Office of Advanced Scientific
Computing Research, NERSC is the primary high-performance computing
(HPC) facility for open scientific research within the DOE. The
scientific users cover a broad set of scientific areas such as
climate modeling, biology, chemistry, environmental sciences,
geosciences, astrophysics and other related disciplines. "LSI is
proud to be providing the data storage backbone of one of the
world's leading supercomputing centers," said Steve Hochberg,
senior director, HPC segment, LSI. "This stands as a testament to
the LSI Engenio 7900 HPC system's performance and high reliability,
and we're honored to play an integral role in the important
scientific research conducted at this premier government facility."
The LSI Engenio 7900 HPC system combines industry-leading bandwidth
and flexible host connectivity, including InfiniBand® and 8 Gb/s
Fibre Channel, with scalability up to 480 drives and advanced
reliability features. The system is designed to provide HPC
facilities with continuous high-speed data accessibility and
protection across a wide range of HPC workloads. With more than 80
petabytes of storage deployed across a broad spectrum of HPC
environments, LSI Engenio storage systems are helping to accelerate
scientific research and innovation for many of the world's largest
government and university-based research centers. More information
about LSI's HPC storage solutions can be found at
http://www.lsi.com/hpc. About LSI LSI Corporation (NYSE:LSI) is a
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