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Simon Fraser University Receives $8 Million to Build Data Storage Hub

System to store 62PB across four national sites, 100PB in 2018, and 250PB by 2020

SFU (Simon Fraser University) has received $8.35 million from the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI), the Ontario Research Fund (ORFRI) and the BC Knowledge Development Fund (BCKDF) to build a storage hub at the Burnaby campus.

Mechanical room that houses cooling system for storage servers

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This is the first installment of Compute Canada‘s research computing platform renewal, which will serve Canada’s growing community of computing researchers. Upon completion, the University will house up to 25,000 CPU cores, nearly 1,000 GPU devices and 15PB of storage disks.

We are honoured to be part of the collective effort to scale up advanced research computing in Canada,” says Joy Johnson, VP, research, SFU. “The new cyber-infrastructure will make it easier for researchers to securely store and share data from coast to coast, stimulating made-in-Canada discoveries and innovations.

The new system is also hosted at the University of Victoria, University of Toronto and University of Waterloo and will be available to researchers at all Canadian universities.

Mark Dietrich, president and CEO, Compute Canada, says the new system will give Canada and its researchers a competitive advantage.

We designed, together with our partners, a Canadian solution that is unique in the world,” says Dietrich. “Because of Compute Canada’s national platform and federated model for service delivery, we are able to deliver accessible, national solutions on a common platform across the country.

Lorenzo Costantino, director, infrastructure services, SFU 
shows his colleague new tape storage system

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Compute Canada and its partner universities will operate the new storage system, with operational funding from the CFI’s Major Science Initiatives (MSI) program, matched by provincial and institutional funds. Planned investments, to be made through late 2017, will grow the system to store approximately 62PB across the four national sites and eventually, more than 100PB in 2018, and 250PB by 2020.

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