San Diego HPC Center Implements Qumulo Distributed File System

Qumulo, Inc. announced that the San Diego HPC Center (SDSC), a forerunner in providing both data-intensive computing and cyber infrastructure offerings to the national research community, has selected its distributed file system to offer to scientific research customers.

San Diego Hpc Center Selects Qumulo

SDSC is a MSP for the scientific community in government, academia, and business. As a research unit at the University of California, San Diego, SDSC uses its on-prem HPCs to run advanced computation and all aspects of big storage and analysis, including data integration, performance modeling, data mining, and predictive analytics.

The center is a member of XSEDE (eXtreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment), a single virtual system that enables researchers to interactively share computing resources, data collections, and advanced research tools.

Its data-intensive gateways and client technology stacks must support high-capacity storage for massive amounts of big data – much of it unstructured. Although its HPCs handle computing tasks, the neuroscience storage systems lacked massive scale-out capacity and the storage features necessary to support big data, fast access, and advanced analytics.

“Our storage requirements for data projects are growing from tens of terabytes to hundreds of terabytes,” said Amit Majumdar, Ph.D., director of data enabled scientific computing, SDSC. “Large data transfer and storage, high-speed access, sharing, search functionalities – all of these are becoming more and more important for our projects.“

To meet its MSP client requirements, SDSC selected Qumulo’s file storage solution because of its ability to provide an optimal balance of performance, capacity, scalability, durability, and functionality.

“We’d been searching for a reliable, resilient, cost effective solution for our customers with large-scale data needs,” said Michael Norman, director, SDSC. “In times past, we traded staff time for purchased solutions to meet tolerable price points. We were elated to partner with Qumulo and find we didn’t have to spend years building a DIY solution.“

“Qumulo has been incredibly easy for SDSC to manage,” said Brian Balderston, director of infrastructure, SDSC. “Instead of having to focus our manpower and resources on managing a number of inefficient storage systems, we are able to allocate and focus our engineering time to work on securing highly impactful and well-funded grants from the National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health, and other funding agencies. That is a big win for the Center.“

Qumulo’s file storage delivers low latency and high throughput to meet the demands of HPC workloads in the data center and in the cloud. Its file storage manages mixed I/O performance for billions of small and large files at petabyte scale to accelerate productivity and real-time analytics and to eliminate data blindness for research organizations, helping to save time and money.

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