FREMONT, CA — May 1, 2007 — Stanford University has been awarded with Storage Networking World's "Best Practices in Storage" Award for their successful design, implementation and management of a high performance computing (HPC) infrastructure using Panasas ActiveStor Parallel Storage Clusters. The award was determined by IDG's Computerworld Magazine's advisory group and alumni panel.
Stanford received this recognition for its deployment of Panasas' parallel clustered storage solutions in their world class research facility which focuses on solving engineering challenges that require massively parallel computing resources for large-scale simulations such as computational fluid dynamics (CFD). Panasas' solution has allowed Stanford scientists to perform quick, efficient analysis of the physics included in simulations allowing them to make critical decisions on prioritizing future calculations and simulations.
"Panasas' ActiveStor Parallel Storage Cluster has helped Stanford's HPC center win this prestigious award by dramatically improving our ability to tackle complex simulations and speed results that were not possible with previous storage solutions," said Steve Jones, HPC manager at Stanford University. "Stanford's HPC center was able to integrate Panasas parallel storage into the Center's infrastructure in less than two hours, with minimal administrative requirements. We now receive accelerated results across a variety of complex scientific applications. With Panasas, large-scale storage clusters can be assembled and running within days instead of weeks or months."
All Panasas storage clusters contain the object-based PanFS™ parallel file system. Using Panasas storage, customers can achieve maximum application performance while reducing total cost of ownership by driving the cost and complexity out of their storage infrastructure. The fully-parallel Panasas DirectFlow® protocol provides direct access between Linux cluster nodes and Panasas storage to eliminate costly performance bottlenecks that legacy storage systems can create when used with parallel applications. Additionally, a single global namespace dramatically simplifies cluster management.
"Recognizing Stanford for their HPC Center implementation illustrates how Panasas parallel storage solutions provide the highest performance to tackle demanding simulation and modeling applications, which results in substantially faster research and development," said Len Rosenthal, chief marketing officer at Panasas. "We are honored to play a significant role in Stanford's preeminent High Performance Computing Center and look forward to a continued close partnership with Stanford."
About Computerworld
Computerworld is recognized worldwide as the premier source for news, information and opinion on the critical technology and management issues affecting senior technology professionals. Computerworld's award-winning weekly publication, Computerworld.com Web site, focused conference series and custom research, form the hub of the world's largest (58-edition) global IT media network. In the past five years alone, Computerworld has won more than 100 awards, including the 2004 and 2006 Magazine of the Year Award from the American Society of Business Publication Editors and Folio Magazine's 2006 Gold EDDIE Award for the best technology/computing magazine. Computerworld has an online audience of over 2 million unique monthly visitors (Omniture) and a total print audience of 1,337,000 (IntelliQuest CIMS Spring 2006). Computerworld is on the Web at www.computerworld.com.
Computerworld is a business unit of International Data Group (IDG), the world's leading technology media, research and events company. A privately held company, IDG publishes more than 300 magazines and newspapers, including CIO, CSO, Computerworld, GamePro, InfoWorld, Network World and PC World. The company features the largest network of technology-specific Web sites, with more than 400 around the world. IDG is also a leading producer of more than 170 computer-related events worldwide, including Storage Networking World®, Premier 100®, LinuxWorld Conference & Expo®, Macworld Conference & Expo, DEMO® and IDC Directions. IDC provides global market research and advice through offices in 50 countries. Company information is available at http://www.idg.com.
About the SNIA
The Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) is a not-for-profit global organization, made up of more than 460 member companies and close to 7,000 active individuals spanning virtually the entire storage industry. SNIA members share the common goal of advancing the adoption of storage networks as complete and trusted solutions. To this end, the SNIA is uniquely committed to delivering standards, education and services that will propel open storage networking solutions into the broader market. For additional information, visit the SNIA web site at http://www.snia.org.
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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