Leibniz Supercomputing Center Selects DDN

DataDirect Networks, Inc.
announced that Munich-based Leibniz Supercomputing Center (LRZ) has selected
DDN’s Storage Fusion Architecture (SFA) to power their new SuperMUC HPC system, a new supercomputer that
will power many scientific research initiatives in
astrophysics, seismology, medicine and other disciplines.

"In deploying a system of this scale, LRZ
required the highest levels of scalability in performance, capacity and data
protection to support the mission critical requirements of European scientific
research communities," said Prof. Dr. Arndt Bode of LRZ. "DDN’s advanced SFA technology will allow
SuperMUC to scale to support up to 3 petaflop/s of computational capability and
manage massive scientific datasets without the bottlenecks associated with
conventional storage systems."

"Like hundreds of advanced computing
environments all over the world that have selected DDN information management
systems, LRZ will leverage our scalable infrastructure to enable true
scientific insight," said Paul Bloch, President and cofounder, DDN.
"We are honored to support the
scientists who will use SuperMUC to simulate the evolution of the universe,
model the propagation of earthquakes, study the properties of engineering
systems, and perform other many other advanced research experiments."

The system
was designed and implemented by IBM. The SuperMUC computing system is part of
the Gauss Center for Supercomputing (GCS), and
alliance of German supercomputer centers.

Over 50% of
the top 100 supercomputers rely on DDN storage systems.

Once complete,
DDN-powered LRZ
supercomputer will include:

• A multi-million dollar investment in
  DDN SFA Next Generation Storage
• More than 15PB of file
  system scalability
• 200GB/s I/O bandwidth