ICC worked with the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) in developing a solution built around LSI™ 6Gb/s SAS I/O to handle the Center’s data workload
The NCSA engages in extremely resource-intensive data management, providing information on some of the most challenging astronomy projects in the world.
One of these projects is the “Dark Energy Survey,” an undertaking of tremendous scale involving over 120 scientists from 23 institutions internationally. In the pursuit of one of the greatest scientific mysteries, the collection and processing of digital data from astronomical observations assumes an unprecedented challenge in data storage and management. Throughout the lifespan of the project, the database storing this information is expected to grow by 400GB daily for one and a half years (totaling approximately 200TB of raw data.)
Our solution integrated top-of-the-line technology from our channel partner LSI
- LSI MegaRAID SAS 9260-8i low-profile MD2 eight-port internal 6Gb/s SATA
- SAS PCIe RAID controller
- LSI MegaRAID Cache-Cade software
This recommended configuration for the NCSA was developed to maximize in-box data throughput and provide the scalability needed for the clustered configurations handling the I/O loads. The NCSA found our test platform very impressive and adopted our system for use in the “Dark Energy Survey.”
