DataDirect Networks Case Studies When Time is of the Essence: Wroclaw Centre for Networking and Supercomputing Speeds Understanding of Sea Level Change with DDN Storage and Advanced Lustre File Sharing

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When Time is of the Essence: Wroclaw Centre for Networking and Supercomputing Speeds Understanding of Sea Level Change with DDN Storage and Advanced Lustre File Sharing

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Technology Category	Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Cloud Storage Services Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Hybrid Cloud
Applicable Industries	Education Life Sciences
Applicable Functions	Product Research & Development Quality Assurance
Use Cases	Predictive Maintenance Process Control & Optimization
Services	Cloud Planning, Design & Implementation Services Data Science Services
Challenge	Wroclaw Centre for Networking and Supercomputing (WCSS) was facing challenges in supporting the processing and collection of increasingly large, complex, data-intensive scientific weather and geographic models. The temporary or scratch storage was required to address data growth across diverse scientific projects. The center needed to deliver access and capacity to support the work of over 3,000 scientists and researchers. There was an escalating need to address mixed workloads across a complicated, heterogeneous ecosystem of hardware and applications. Read More
About Customer	Wroclaw Centre for Networking and Supercomputing (WCSS) is a unit of the Wroclaw University of Technology. It provides more than 3,000 scientists and researchers at the university and other academic institutions with cutting-edge computational tools and high-performance storage to support a wide range of scientific research. As one of Poland’s five national supercomputing centers, WCSS takes advantage of advanced computing capabilities, including a recently acquired computer cluster that ranks among the 100 fastest computers in the world. This supercomputing power enables WCSS to ensure fast, reliable and secure access to large data files and vast amounts of scientific research. With its highly innovative technology infrastructure, WCSS supports scientific breakthroughs in acoustics, chemistry, informatics, life sciences, mechanics, molecular biology, physics and other scientific disciplines. Read More
Solution	WCSS implemented DDN’s SFA12KX® family of high-performance storage which delivers industry-leading performance, capacity and density. The DDN EXAScaler® file system ensures ample storage available to all network nodes with fully parallel I/O across clients, servers and storage. The solution also supports Intel® Enterprise Edition for Lustre software to resolve HPC storage and throughput challenges. The robust storage meets needs for shared access to project data from several hundred jobs at the same time. The solution also provided optimized InfiniBand host-port options for delivering seamless connectivity between servers and storage. Read More Log in to view content
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Technology Category

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Cloud Storage Services

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Hybrid Cloud

Applicable Industries

Education

Life Sciences

Applicable Functions

Product Research & Development

Quality Assurance

Use Cases

Predictive Maintenance

Process Control & Optimization

Services

Cloud Planning, Design & Implementation Services

Data Science Services

Challenge

Wroclaw Centre for Networking and Supercomputing (WCSS) was facing challenges in supporting the processing and collection of increasingly large, complex, data-intensive scientific weather and geographic models. The temporary or scratch storage was required to address data growth across diverse scientific projects. The center needed to deliver access and capacity to support the work of over 3,000 scientists and researchers. There was an escalating need to address mixed workloads across a complicated, heterogeneous ecosystem of hardware and applications.

About Customer

Wroclaw Centre for Networking and Supercomputing (WCSS) is a unit of the Wroclaw University of Technology. It provides more than 3,000 scientists and researchers at the university and other academic institutions with cutting-edge computational tools and high-performance storage to support a wide range of scientific research. As one of Poland’s five national supercomputing centers, WCSS takes advantage of advanced computing capabilities, including a recently acquired computer cluster that ranks among the 100 fastest computers in the world. This supercomputing power enables WCSS to ensure fast, reliable and secure access to large data files and vast amounts of scientific research. With its highly innovative technology infrastructure, WCSS supports scientific breakthroughs in acoustics, chemistry, informatics, life sciences, mechanics, molecular biology, physics and other scientific disciplines.

Solution

WCSS implemented DDN’s SFA12KX® family of high-performance storage which delivers industry-leading performance, capacity and density. The DDN EXAScaler® file system ensures ample storage available to all network nodes with fully parallel I/O across clients, servers and storage. The solution also supports Intel® Enterprise Edition for Lustre software to resolve HPC storage and throughput challenges. The robust storage meets needs for shared access to project data from several hundred jobs at the same time. The solution also provided optimized InfiniBand host-port options for delivering seamless connectivity between servers and storage.

Impact #1	Upgraded storage infrastructure enables 3,000 users to push boundaries of science including quantum chemistry, theoretical physics, life sciences, geo-sciences, cryptography and many others.
Impact #2	Expanded file sharing system quadruples speed of accessing vital research data.
Impact #3	Running larger and more complex simulations faster and more easily with its Intel Enterprise Edition for Lustre deployment.

Impact #1

Upgraded storage infrastructure enables 3,000 users to push boundaries of science including quantum chemistry, theoretical physics, life sciences, geo-sciences, cryptography and many others.

Impact #2

Expanded file sharing system quadruples speed of accessing vital research data.

Impact #3

Running larger and more complex simulations faster and more easily with its Intel Enterprise Edition for Lustre deployment.

Benefit #1	Achieved high density, DDN® infrastructure offers six times more storage capacity in the same rack cabinet.
Benefit #2	Increased bandwidth throughput with extremely fast data transfer rates of 65 GB/s read/write performance.

Benefit #1

Achieved high density, DDN® infrastructure offers six times more storage capacity in the same rack cabinet.

Benefit #2

Increased bandwidth throughput with extremely fast data transfer rates of 65 GB/s read/write performance.

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When Time is of the Essence: Wroclaw Centre for Networking and Supercomputing Speeds Understanding of Sea Level Change with DDN Storage and Advanced Lustre File Sharing

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