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University of North Texas Installs Dell Terascala HPC Storage Solution

1.5PB system utilizing 4TB HDDs

Terascala, Inc.
announced that the University of North Texas (UNT)
installed a Dell Terascala HPC Storage Solution (DT-HSS 4.5).

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The Terascala, Inc.‘s solution is part of the university’s new cluster, Talon 2.0,
a high-performance, campus-wide system that supports computational research. The
new HPC cluster is housed at UNT’s Central Data Center and replaces the
original Talon cluster. Talon 2.0 is part of UNT’s HPC Initiative, a project of
Academic Computing and User Services
(ACUS) – a division of the University IT (UIT). The cluster will support
approximately 55 research groups and more than 350 faculty and student
researchers in a variety of fields, with top utilization in chemistry, material
sciences and physics.

UNT selected the Dell Terascala storage appliance because they needed higher
throughput and more storage capacity at an affordable price. Since the
installation of the original Talon cluster in 2009, the number of researchers
accessing the cluster has grown fivefold. The huge increase in processing loads
resulted in I/O bottlenecks.

"To meet our rapidly growing storage
needs, we were looking for a solution that would deliver the high I/O we
require for the numerically intensive applications used by our researchers,
"
explained Scott Yockel, Ph.D., manager of HPC Services, UNT.  "Talon 2.0 will enable researchers to do
everything faster. Additionally, we’ll be able to do research we couldn’t even
attempt before, such as conducting natural language processing on text from
UNT’s 100TB  and growing digital library.
"

Terascala’s intelligent yet intuitive OS, TeraOS, simplifies managing
Lustre-based storage, including failover of object and metadata server nodes.
Yockel believes this capability will allow him to better manage the system
because it lets him detect and fix problems before they become noticeable to
the end user.

"TeraOS provides a view into the
Lustre layer so UNT can see how the file system is being used, which is a tool
they didn’t have before. The Terascala appliance also provides them with
graphical representations of any failures in the system, along with alerts of
potential problems,
" explained Steve Butler, Terascala’s CEO. "Together, these capabilities will allow UNT
to address minor problems before they snowball into major problems.
"

Installation of the DT-HSS at UNT was quick and easy. TeraOS was up and running
in less than a day. The 1.5PB system utilizes 4TB disks and includes Lustre 2.1.5.

"We are pleased that UNT has
selected Terascala to meet their HPC storage needs,
" concluded Butler.
"TeraOS optimizes workflows and
simplifies the management, monitoring and tuning of high-performance storage.
Our graphical view of the system, our analytics, and other performance features
will enable UNT to provide their researchers with the high throughput storage
they need to solve bigger problems faster.
"

Terascala provides the OS and analytics that transform block storage and
controllers from Dell, EMC, and NetApp into a storage
appliance that delivers multiple GB/s of throughput for HPC workloads.
Terascala-powered storage appliances can reduce run times to hours instead of
days or weeks, delivering value in terms of initial
investment and long-term operating costs.

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