National Renewable Energy Laboratory Chooses Qumulo File Storage

Qumulo, Inc. announced that the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) has selected itss file storage solution for its Computational Science Center.

NREL is the US Department of Energy‘s primary national laboratory for renewable energy, and energy efficiency R&D. The organization focuses on research for renewable power technologies, sustainable transportation, energy efficiency, and energy systems integration.

The NREL Computational Science Center leads the lab’s efforts to solve energy challenges using HPC, computational science, applied mathematics, scientific data management, visualization, and informatics.

NREL required a high-capacity storage solution for its researchers and engineers to store, access and manage their unstructured data. It has deployed three clusters of Qumulo storage to date, a four-node cluster on the Qumulo Capacity Series QC40; a four-node cluster on the Qumulo Capacity Series QC208, and a four-node cluster on the HPE90.

The lab is using Qumulo storage for its researcher home directories on the new Eagle System, the newest HPC system at NREL; as well as for administrative and researcher NAS requirements, and replication of all HPC NAS requirements.

“With the impact of climate change, it’s crucial for organizations such as NREL to adopt technologies that accelerate their research and outcomes. The lab’s HPC environment has a broad range of demands encompassing multiple use cases, a large number of users, and long-term data retention,” said Molly Presley, director of global product marketing, Qumulo. “With Qumulo’s incredibly scalable architecture and real-time file analytics, the NREL team can gain better insight into their data, and in turn focus more effectively on their mission to drive innovation in energy efficiency and renewable energy technologies.“

The growing list of Qumulo customers in life sciences and scientific research includes Carnegie Institution for Science, CID Research, channing division of network medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, DarwinHealth, Inc., Georgia Cancer Center at Augusta University, Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at University of Washington, Johns Hopkins Genomics at The Johns Hopkins University, Progenity, Inc., UConn Health, University of Utah Scientific Computing and Imaging (SCI) Institute that are using Qumulo to accelerate their data-intensive workflows and speed discovery of scientific and medical breakthroughs.

The vendor offers the freedom to store, manage, and access file-based data in any operating environment, at petabyte scale. It offers storage systems designed to manage the volume and geographic dispersion of technology, both on-premises and in the public cloud. These solutions are available on its own branded storage servers, on third-party hardware from companies such as HPE and Dell, and natively on AWS in the public cloud. They are designed to meet requirements for scale, offering the high-performance file storage system for data centers and the public cloud.