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Brookhaven National Lab Has Deployed 300TB BlueArc Titan 2200

BlueArc Corporation announced that Brookhaven National Lab
(Brookhaven), a multi-program laboratory operated for the U.S.
Department of Energy, has deployed a BlueArc Titan 2200 cluster with
nearly 300 terabytes of storage. The BlueArc Titan system serves as a
massively scalable and reliable foundation for the fastest available
access to data resulting from research today-and in the future.

"We can’t afford to experiment when it comes to storage
infrastructure,
" said Robert Petkus, RHIC/USATLAS Computing Facility,
Brookhaven National Laboratory. "As Brookhaven prepares to support some
of the world’s most important particle physics research next year,
we’ve replaced cutting-edge but inadequate systems with BlueArc Titan
2200 servers that can scale effortlessly and respond consistently to
shifts in volume and demand.
"

Approximately 3,000 scientists, engineers, technicians and
support staff and another 4,000 or more guest researchers per year
depend on data from the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider Computing
Facility (RHIC) that Brookhaven operates at its U.S. facility.
Brookhaven also has a major role in international projects such as the
ambitious Large Hadron Collider (LHC) under construction by CERN, the
European Organization for Nuclear Research and the world’s premier
particle physics research lab. Data from RHIC experiments is
proliferating at an astounding rate, and Petkus anticipates that by
2012, Brookhaven will have more than 4,000 nodes on its storage area
network. With so many users and many means of accessing data, Petkus
sought a unified storage environment and a single vendor to help him
retain control over the implementation.

BlueArc offers precisely the combination of record-setting
performance and reliability essential to deliver data that maps the
speed of change of subatomic matter. Petkus and his team have deployed
a two-node BlueArc Titan 2200 cluster with six-gigabit connections
trunked together and 288 terabytes of Fibre Channel disk capacity.
Petkus sees a two-fold advantage in the BlueArc Titan solution’s
distinctive hardware-based architecture, which supports multiple access
protocols without requiring modification to Brookhaven’s 2,000-node
server farm, maximizing the value of the laboratory’s technology
investments and supporting growth.

"My job is to think ahead as far as I possibly can," said Petkus.
"Every node in our storage network is becoming a supercomputer with
massive memory and 64-bit architecture. We support huge networks, huge
amounts of data and demanding physicists around the world, so I’ve
always got to know what the latest high-performance technologies are
and make choices that won’t risk our data to unproven systems.
"

 

BlueArc Corp

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