Panasas ActiveStor® storage solutions running the PanFS® file system power innovative research in agriculture, astrophysics, bioinformatics, climate research, computational chemistry, genome analysis, geophysics, high energy physics, machine learning, materials science, molecular biology, and beyond. See what Panasas makes possible.
For over two decades, universities and research institutes around the globe have trusted Panasas to deliver next-generation high performance computing (HPC) storage technologies. We have proudly provided reliable, cost-effective, high-performance storage access with unlimited scalability to thousands of researchers at more than a hundred higher education institutions.
Born from the brain power at Carnegie Mellon University’s Parallel Data Lab, the PanFS® parallel file system enables top university HPC facilities to advance their data-intensive research by maximizing HPC cluster application processing. It was designed to provide the unparalleled reliability research teams need to keep their projects on track and to eliminate the management burdens associated with problematic roll-your-own and open-source storage solutions.
Northfields Ave, Wollongong NSW 2522, Australia
https://www.uow.edu.au/media/2021/panasas-uow-establish-partnership-to-support-cryo-em-research.php
450 Serra Mall, Stanford, CA 94305
https://psaap.stanford.edu/compute_resources.html
Los Angeles, CA 90095
https://qcb.ucla.edu/collaboratory/hoffman2-cluster-user-guide/
Buffalo, NY 14260
https://www.buffalo.edu/ccr/support/research_facilities/storage.html
Atkinson Hall, 9500 Gilman Dr, La Jolla, CA 92093
https://cmi.ucsd.edu/partnerships/industry-partners/panasas/
Athens, GA 30602
https://gacrc.uga.edu/systems/
Spalding Hall, 2540 Maile Way, Honolulu, HI 96822
www.hawaii.edu
1450 Jayhawk Blvd, Lawrence, KS 66045
https://crc.ku.edu/hpc
Lexington, KY 40506
www.uky.edu
670 W Baltimore St 3rd floor, Baltimore, MD 21201
https://www.igs.umaryland.edu/resources/irc/it.php
3720 Alumni Ave, Memphis, TN 38152
www.memphis.edu
2000 Lakeshore Dr, New Orleans, LA 70148
www.uno.edu
Notre Dame, IN 46556
https://docs.crc.nd.edu/resources/caml.html
660 Parrington Oval, Norman, OK 73019
www.ou.edu
Los Angeles, CA 90007
www.usc.edu
15 Broadway, Ultimo NSW 2007, Australia
https://www.uts.edu.au/
505 S Chandalar, Fairbanks, AK 99775
www.uaf.edu
1520 Middle Dr, Knoxville, TN 37996
https://www.eecs.utk.edu/
Madison, WI
https://www.wisc.edu/
800 W Campbell Rd, Richardson, TX 75080
https://www.utdallas.edu/
Logan, UT 84322
http://www.usu.edu/
2201 West End Ave, Nashville, TN 37235
https://www.vanderbilt.edu/
Blacksburg, VA 24061
https://vt.edu/
42 W Warren Ave, Detroit, MI 48202
https://tech.wayne.edu/kb/high-performance-computing/pi-resources/447
4200 Fifth Ave, Pittsburgh, PA 15260
https://www.pitt.edu/
77 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139
http://web.mit.edu/
1720 University Blvd, Birmingham, AL 35294
www.uab.edu
55 N Lake Ave, Worcester, MA 01655
www.umassmed.edu
5323 Harry Hines Blvd, Dallas, TX 75390
https://www.utsouthwestern.edu
5801 S Ellis Ave, Chicago, IL 60637
www.uchicago.edu
801 University Boulevard, Tuscaloosa, AL 35487
www.ua.edu
6100 Main St, Houston, TX 77005
www.rice.edu
Princeton, NJ 08544
www.princeton.edu
1825 SW Broadway, Portland, OR 97201
www.pdx.edu
Stillwater, OK
www.go.okstate.edu
5520 108th Ave NE, Kirkland, WA 98033
www.northwestu.edu
New York, NY 10012
www.nyu.edu
Minneapolis, MN 55455
https://www.msi.umn.edu/news/msi-upgrades-panasas-storage-systems
Baton Rouge, LA 70803
www.lsu.edu
3811 W 13 Mile Rd, Royal Oak, MI 48073
www.beaumont.org
1910 W University Dr, Boise, ID 83725
https://www.boisestate.edu
140 Commonwealth Ave, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
https://www.bc.edu
Provo, UT 84602
https://www.byu.edu
1200 E California Blvd, Pasadena, CA 91125
https://www.caltech.edu
5000 Forbes Ave, Pittsburgh, PA 15213
www.cmu.edu
10900 Euclid Ave, Cleveland, OH 44106
https://case.edu/utech/departments/research-computing/about-us
1 Aerospace Blvd, Daytona Beach, FL 32114
www.erau.edu
201 Dowman Dr, Atlanta, GA 30322
https://www.sph.emory.edu/research/labs/index.html
600 W College Ave, Tallahassee, FL 32306
https://cimas.earth.miami.edu/about-us/partners/florida-state-university/index.html
North Ave NW, Atlanta, GA 30332
www.gatech.edu
25 Shattuck St, Boston, MA 02115
www.harvard.edu
801 16th Ave NE, Austin, MN 55912
www.hi.umn.edu
Reading, United Kingdom
http://www.met.reading.ac.uk/~swsheaps/jasmin.html
Nottingham NG7 2RD, United Kingdom
www.nottingham.ac.uk
Waterside Campus, University Dr, Northampton NN1 5PH, United Kingdom
www.northampton.ac.uk
University Rd, Leicester LE1 7RH, United Kingdom
www.le.ac.uk
21 Lower Kent Ridge Rd, Singapore 119077
www.nus.edu.sg
752 36 Uppsala, Sweden
www.uu.se
Ru00e4mistrasse 101, 8092 Zu00fcrich, Switzerland
www.ethz.ch
Ru00e4mistrasse 71, 8006 Zu00fcrich, Switzerland
www.uzh.ch
Alderley Park, Manchester, SK10 4TG, UK
https://www.cruk.manchester.ac.uk/Portals/18/Documents/Annual Report/CRUK-Manchester-AR-2020-web.pdf
College Rd, Cranfield, Wharley End, Bedford MK43 0AL, United Kingdom
www.cranfield.ac.uk
Durham, United Kingdom
www.durham.ac.uk
Strand, London WC2R 2LS, United Kingdom
www.kcl.ac.uk
Bailrigg, Lancaster LA1 4YW, United Kingdom
www.lancester.ac.uk
Oxford OX1 2JD, United Kingdom
http://old.ictf.ox.ac.uk/conference/2016/C4-HPC-SIG-Update.pdf
Gower St, London WC1E 6BT, United Kingdom
www.ucl.ac.uk
Bristol BS8 1TH, United Kingdom
www.bristol.ac.uk
Woodhouse, Leeds LS2 9JT, United Kingdom
www.leeds.ac.uk
Prospekt Lenina, 76, Chelyabinsk, Chelyabinsk Oblast, Russia, 454080
www.susu.ru
University Embankment, 7/9, St Petersburg, Russia, 199034
www.spbu.ru
Lenin Ave, 36, Tomsk, Tomsk Oblast, Russia, 634050
www.tsu.ru
Stroiteley Ave, 11, Vladimir, Vladimir Oblast, Russia, 600024
www.vlsu.ru
Ploshchad' Pavshikh Bortsov, u0434. 1, Volgograd, Volgograd Oblast, Russia, 400131
www.rossu.edu
Grand Canal Quay, Dublin 2 D02 HP83, Ireland
https://www.ichec.ie
Piazza Umberto I, 1, 70121 Bari BA, Italy
https://www.uniba.it/en
Largo Bruno Pontecorvo, 3/Edificio C, 56127 Pisa PI, Italy
www.pi.infn.it
Furocho, Chikusa Ward, Nagoya, Aichi 464-8601, Japan
www.nagoya-u.ac.jp
7 Chome-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo City, Tokyo 113-8654, Japan
www.u-tokyo.ac.jp
Al-Farabi Avenue 71, Almaty 050040, Kazakhstan
www.kaznu.kz
Beibitshilik St 49/A, Astana 010000, Kazakhstan
https://amu.edu.kz/
Education City Student Center, Doha, Qatar
www.qatar.tamu.edu
Ulitsa Pobedy, 85, Belgorod, Belgorod Oblast, Russia, 308015
www.bsu.edu.ru
Ulitsa Kolmogorova, 1, Moscow, Russia, 119991
www.msu.ru
Yaroslavskoye Hwy, 26, Moscow, Russia, 129337
www.mgsu.ru
Novosibirsk, Novosibirsk Oblast, Russia, 630090
www.nsu.ru
384 Victoria St, Darlinghurst NSW 2010, Australia
https://www.garvan.org.au/research/kinghorn-centre-for-clinical-genomics/research-programs/informatics
2 George St, Brisbane City QLD 4000, Australia
www.qut.edu.au
Parkville VIC 3010, Australia
www.unimelb.edu.au
St Lucia QLD 4072, Australia
www.uq.edu.au
Av. Pedro Calmon, 550 - Cidade Universitu00e1ria da Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro - RJ, 21941-901, Brazil
https://ufrj.br/en/
170-6371 Crescent Road Vancouver, BC Canada V6T 1Z2
https://www.grad.ubc.ca/affiliated-institute/bc-childrens-hospital-research-institute
19 Xinwai Ave, Beitaipingzhuang, Haidian District, Beijing, China, 100875
https://english.bnu.edu.cn
FG62+W6F, Ji'nan Rd, Dongying District, Dongying, Shandong, China, 257099
www.cup.edu.cn
Pok Fu Lam, Hong Kong
https://www.hku.hk/
Nordre Ringgade 1, 8000 Aarhus C, Denmark
https://international.au.dk
Maison de l'Universitu00e9, Esp. Erasme, 21078 Dijon, France
http://www.u-bourgogne.fr/
1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
https://www.unil.ch
60 Bd Saint-Michel, 75272 Paris, France
www.mines-paristech.eu
Notkestrau00dfe 85, 22607 Hamburg, Germany
www.desy.de
Sandtorstrau00dfe, 39106 Magdeburg, Germany
www.mpi-magdeburg.mpg.de
ICFW, Universitu00e4tsstrau00dfe 150, 44801 Bochum, Germany
www.icams.de
Akademiestrau00dfe 6, 09599 Freiberg, Germany
https://tu-freiberg.de/en/urz/service-portfolio/infrastruktur/compute-cluster-2019
Universitu00e4tsstrau00dfe 30, 95447 Bayreuth, Germany
www.uni-bayreuth.de
Albertus-Magnus-Platz, 50923 Ku00f6ln, Germany
www.portal.uni-koeln.de
Small IT teams, multiple research groups, lean budgets, massive datasets, mixed workloads – these cease to be problems with Panasas as your data foundation.
Increase productivity and enable groundbreaking insights with simple to manage, scalable, high-performance storage. Panasas solutions offer the flexibility for scratch-only or consolidated scratch, home directories, and project storage with single-tier mixed workload performance to support the requirements of growing numbers of academic researchers. With thousands of users requiring constant large-scale, high-throughput data access, low-touch administration makes the solutions affordable and the life of the administrator easy.
Academic HPC facilities choose PanFS for its built-in prevention and automated failure recovery logic, which ensure the highest of uptimes for their community of researchers.
With hundreds of research groups working on a multitude of data-intensive projects, the single-tier PanFS architecture is ideal for mixed file size workloads and storage consolidation projects.
Limited IT staff and budget constraints call for a reliable, cost-effective, and especially easy-to-manage high-performance storage platform for frustration-free monitoring and performance management.
Here’s what some of our academic partners have to say about working with us.
“The Panasas partnership gives us access to the kind of high-performance technology that is critical to tackle an increasing variety of sophisticated uses cases with MSI’s ‘Agate’ cluster. This long-term partnership has provided our researchers with the top-flight technology and technical support they need.”
Dr. Jim Wilgenbusch
Director of Research Computing at UMN
“This will allow us to accelerate workloads and store important data for our various research projects. We’re going to get really fast access to files, to the active layer. This collaboration between two very high-value players coming together in true partnership will support Australian science in general, and more specifically, the University’s role in furthering our understanding in these important areas of science.”
Dr. James Bouwer
Director of Cryo-EM at Molecular Horizons, University of Wollongong
“With Panasas ActiveStor, researchers save time since they no longer have to move or copy data files before they can process them. They gain productivity since there are no more HPC bottlenecks to access the storage system. Bandwidth is four to five times higher than before.”
Gregory Sainte-Luce
IT Manager at the Materials Research Center, MINES ParisTec
“While most of the world sees research in microbiology being made in flasks or tubes, a lot of modern methods generate immense amounts of data that require powerful storage such as Panasas ActiveStor.”
Dr. Sandrine Miller-Montgomery
Executive Director of the UC San Diego Center for Microbiome Innovation
“The Panasas user interface and intuitiveness exceeds those [EMC Isilon and Dell Compellent storage tools] products. Once I assign the students to their storage resources, ActiveStor is pretty much hands off for me for the rest of the semester.”
Jeff Smith
Systems Administrator and Architect, ATEC at the University of Texas at Dallas
“We tried other storage solutions with parallel file systems in the past. Some were just not worth the continued investment. Users complained about slow response times and the file systems were a hassle manage. The Panasas file system just works.”
Sharon Brunett
Senior Scientist at Caltech Center for Advanced Computing Research (CACR)
Many academic research projects, papers, and publications have used and cited Panasas. The following is a list of some of those projects.
Tovar et al. (2022, Feb). Dynamic Task Shaping for High Throughput Data Analysis Applications in High Energy Physics. IPDPS 2022.
Jia et al (2018, May 2). Isometry: A Path-Based Distributed Data Transfer System. ICS’18.
Pomeran et al. (2019, Sep). Tentative oblique subduction high resolution models, lead to reducing costs of HPCC usage. Balkan Geophysical Society.
Hermann et al. (2018, Nov 2). Implementing the DICOM Standard for Digital Pathology. Journal of Pathology Informatics.
