Los Alamos National Laboratory and Seagate Heat Up Data Archiving for Supercomputers
21 Marzo 2016 - 1:01PM
Business Wire
Better alternative to “cold storage” promises
to keep data accessible to improve research
Seagate Technology (NASDAQ:STX) and Los Alamos National
Laboratory (Los Alamos) are researching a new storage tier to
enable massive data archiving for supercomputing. The joint effort
is aimed at determining innovative new ways to keep massive amounts
of stored data available for rapid access, while also minimizing
power consumption and improving the quality of data-driven
research.
Under a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement, Seagate
and Los Alamos are working together on power-managed disk and
software solutions for deep data archiving, which represents one of
the biggest challenges faced by organizations that must juggle
increasingly massive amounts of data using very little additional
energy.
“We see huge opportunities to bring power-aware cold storage to
the market as organizations—including and beyond the Department of
Energy—seek new ways to address data storage in resourceful ways,”
said Gary Grider, division leader of high-performance computing
(HPC) at Los Alamos.
Typically, organizations using HPC systems must migrate their
data from fast parallel-file systems to slower, more cost-efficient
“cold” storage technologies. This approach, however, is problematic
for organizations that require frequent access to research data,
because that data tends to reside on static media, which is slow to
access and could jeopardize the quality of research—especially when
real-time analysis is critical.
The new dynamic storage research project will leverage the
technology behind Seagate’s recently released ClusterStor® A200
system. This system uses automated, policy-driven hierarchical
storage management to non-disruptively migrate data off expensive
primary storage tiers while keeping it online for fast retrieval,
which significantly reduces costs in time and operations.
High-density, power-managed prototype disks are intended be a key
element of the research program.
This is the first of several projects Los Alamos and Seagate are
planning to collaborate on to enhance, develop, and deploy
cutting-edge solutions for some of the most challenging HPC storage
problems. The organizations already have a long-standing
relationship, with Seagate providing storage for the national
laboratory’s Trinity supercomputer. The supercomputer, which will
soon conduct simulations crucial for national security, relies on
the Cray Sonexion 2000 system Powered by Seagate for its scale-out
storage capabilities.
“Los Alamos is pushing the frontier of high-performance
computing, building systems to solve the most complex technical
problems,” said Ken Claffey, vice president and general manager,
Seagate HPC systems business. “This new collaboration will allow us
to explore advanced data archiving methods at the mission-critical
government level, which could then influence big data in broader
enterprise applications as well.”
The archiving research program could result in future products
that meet the deep-archiving storage needs of industries such as
cloud providers, weather modeling, financial services, life
sciences, and media and entertainment.
“Seagate’s collaboration with Los Alamos exemplifies the
technology innovations we are helping drive through unique federal
partnerships—particularly in the national laboratory and
intelligence communities,” said Deb Oliver, president, Seagate
government solutions. “Federal agencies are on the frontlines of
today’s data management challenges, and partnerships like this will
help us excel in engineering new systems that not only meet their
stringent demands, but can then be put to broader use, as
well.”
About Los Alamos National Laboratory
Los Alamos National Laboratory, a multidisciplinary research
institution engaged in strategic science on behalf of national
security, is operated by Los Alamos National Security, LLC, a team
composed of Bechtel National, the University of California, BWX
Technologies, Inc. and URS for the Department of Energy’s National
Nuclear Security Administration.
Los Alamos enhances national security by ensuring the safety and
reliability of the U.S. nuclear stockpile, developing technologies
to reduce threats from weapons of mass destruction, and solving
problems related to energy, environment, infrastructure, health,
and global security concerns.
About Seagate
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Seagate:Kari Matalone,
408-658-1911kari.matalone@seagate.comorLos Alamos:Laura Mullane,
505-667-6012Mullane@lanl.gov
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