FREMONT, Calif., — February 8, 2005 — Panasas, Inc., today announced that Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), a premier applied science laboratory and part of the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), has selected the Panasas ActiveScale Storage Cluster™ in a competitive Request for Proposal (RFP). A Panasas solution using the NFS protocol has been deployed to support several high-performance supercomputers as part of the Livermore Computing program, including Thunder, the number five supercomputer in the world.
The Livermore Computing environment makes extensive use of network-attached storage (NAS) via Network File System (NFS) v3 for home, scratch, project, and system space. The Panasas Storage Cluster was selected to store results data due to its ability to provide a single namespace, large file support, storage and volume management, RAID support and extensive report management in a system that seamlessly deployed into the existing environment of heterogeneous clients. In addition, the Panasas Storage Cluster is able to provide 3 gigabytes per second of data throughput, double the RFP request.
"The scientific work done at LLNL has implications for a broad range of scientific disciplines and is an important part of our national security," said Doug East, Division Leader of the ICCD High Performance Systems Division at LLNL. "We are at the forefront of computational science and must continually provide cutting-edge solutions to advance scientific research."
The Panasas Storage Cluster Platform enables customers to break the storage bottleneck created by legacy network storage technologies. The Panasas Storage Cluster Platform combines the Panasas ActiveScale File System™ with the company's unique object-based storage architecture, enabling unmatched scalability and throughput. The Panasas ActiveScale File System dynamically distributes file activity across multiple Panasas StorageBlades, eliminating the inherent performance and capacity growth bottlenecks of today's monolithic file systems. The integrated HW/SW solution balances network I/O, cache memory and compute power to optimally manage file system activity.
"Both technical and commercial organizations are relying on the ability to simulate the world around us, whether to further the efforts of science, innovation and research, or to create a competitive business advantage," said Victor Perez, chief executive officer at Panasas. "The key to advanced simulation is the ability to eliminate the traditional storage bottleneck and enable clusters to fully utilize their compute power."
About Panasas
Panasas, Inc., the global leader in parallel storage solutions, helps commercial, government and academic organizations accelerate their time to results leading to real world breakthroughs that improve people’s lives. Panasas’ high-performance storage systems enable customers to maximize the benefits of Linux clusters by eliminating the storage bottleneck created with legacy network storage technologies. Panasas ActiveStor Parallel Storage Clusters, in conjunction with the ActiveScale® Operating Environment and PanFS™ parallel file system, offer the most comprehensive portfolio of storage solutions for High Performance Computing (HPC) environments. Panasas is headquartered in Fremont, California. For more information, please visit www.panasas.com.
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