DDN Adopted by Australia’s Super Science Initiative

DataDirect Networks Inc. announced the adoption of their
technology within Australia‘s Super Science Initiative and the selection of its scalable
parallel file storage technology by Initiative’s largest
organizations.

Recent high-scale deployments
include sales to the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research
Organisation (CSIRO), the Australian Bureau of Meteorology, the Australian
National University, the University of Western Australia and the Victorian Life
Sciences Computation Initiative (VLSCI).

This year
alone more than 20PB of high-performance, high-efficiency DDN SFA storage have
been purchased by these internationally research institutions as the
region makes investments into its data-intensive computing infrastructure.

"As
we enter an era marked by new technologies that enable researchers and data
scientists to extract value from massive amounts of information, the work our
customers do promises to change the way society lives and works," said
Justin Glen, DDN director of Sales for Australia and New Zealand. "With
more than a decade of experience in resolving challenges at massive scale, DDN
is happy to play a central role in Australia’s success as a center of big
data-driven innovation."

Customers
that have recently purchased
DDN data-intensive storage include:

• In
  partnership with IBM, The Victorian Life Sciences Computation Initiative at the
  University of Melbourne, currently home to the fastest computer in the southern
  hemisphere, which investigates genomics, biology, and other life sciences to
  improve diagnostics, find new drug targets, refine treatments and further
  understanding of major diseases.

• The
  Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO),
  Australia’s national science agency and one of the largest and most diverse
  research agencies in the world. They facilitates research in the areas of
  climate change, energy, environment, mineral resources, and other scientific
  disciplines.

"CSIRO
uses DDN for large-scale storage of scientific data sets," said David
Toll, CIO of CSIRO. "The performance and density of
DDN’s storage has allowed our scientists to do things that were not possible
before."

• In
  partnership with SGI, the University of Western Australia (UWA), which supports
  big data research in disciplines including geoscience, nanoscience and radio
  astronomy.
• The
  National Computational Infrastructure (NCI) hosted at Australian National University
  (ANU) is deploying DDN storage to power their new Fujitsu Petaflop system. When
  deployed, the storage subsystem will have a capacity of over 12PB and will be
  capable of achieving over 120GB/sec of bandwidth through its file system to
  power one of the world’s fastest supercomputers.

"NCI
will be using DDN storage to provide Australian researchers with world-class
high-end computing services," said Professor Lindsay Botten, director
of the National Computational Infrastructure at ANU.

• In
  partnership with IBM, DDN has also recently deployed a large system at the
  Australian Bureau of Meteorology to support the bureau’s work in developing and
  delivering regular forecasts and warnings that covers the Australian region and
  Antarctic territory.