Panasas Signs Tele-Rilevamento Europa
To accelerates geophysical analysis
This is a Press Release edited by StorageNewsletter.com on February 2, 2008 at 3:10 pmPanasas, Inc. announced that Tele-Rilevamento Europa (TRE) has halved
the time it takes to access stored information by deploying Panasas
ActiveStor parallel storage.
This has significantly increased its
production capacity and allows TRE to deliver processed satellite data
much faster to its customers, which gives them a distinct competitive
advantage in the market.
TRE, established in 2000, is the leading global expert in
data processing services derived from satellite-borne Synthetic
Aperture Radar (SAR). Working with its customers TRE is able to detect,
measure and monitor geophysical phenomena (e.g. subsidence, uplift,
landslides, seismic faults, etc.) and verify the stability of
individual buildings. Its customers include some of the world’s leading
government bodies, energy companies, academic research institutes and
space agencies.
The increasing global demand for monitoring land surfaces,
analysing potential environmental hazards and increasing public safety,
has contributed to increased customer demand for TRE’s services. This
has led to TRE’s requirement to increase their processing performance
and storage capacity to meet that demand.
"Our previous storage solution was based on a fiber-channel
SAN, but it quickly became a bottleneck as we grew the number of
compute nodes required to process the growing number of customer jobs
and the increasing sizes of the data-sets" said Alessandro Menegaz, IT
& Security Manager, TRE. "Our production capacity is tightly
coupled with our hardware performance, so we needed a solution that
could scale linearly in terms of capacity and performance as we
increased the number of jobs we were processing."
Working closely with Panasas’ Italian partner E4 Computer
Engineering, TRE focused on identifying the best storage solution.
"Given the criticality of the solution to TRE, E4 Computer Engineering
simulated a test environment to demonstrate Panasas storage
capabilities against other storage solutions in the market." said
Simone Tinti, System Engineer, E4 Computer Engineering, Italy. "The
Panasas ActiveStor parallel storage solution excelled in all the
competitive tests and was the only solution to exceed the performance,
scalability and manageability requirements."
Alessandro Menegaz, TRE, continued: "The Panasas solution
has increased our processing capability significantly by providing
parallel data paths directly between the server nodes and the storage
system. We’ve literally halved the time that our system spent on
processing all the SAR data. Within five minutes of installing the
Panasas ActiveStor Storage cluster we could see all clients and all
data".
Panasas ActiveStor parallel storage includes the embedded
PanFS parallel file system enabling the input and output of data (I/O)
to run in parallel across compute nodes and compute jobs. Two different
product families are available; the Panasas ActiveStor 5000 for
interactive HPC applications and the Panasas ActiveStor 3000 for batch
processing environments. Both families utilise a blade-based
architecture, enabling simple installation and upgradeability to
provide the ideal parallel storage infrastructure for simulation,
modeling and analysis applications.
"Parallel storage has become an essential requirement for
organisations seeking to increase the productivity of their
high-performance computing environments" said Derek Burke, Marketing
Director EMEA, Panasas Inc.
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