Academia Sinica Opts for Infortrend EonStor GS 3000

Infortrend Technology, Inc. enabled Academia Sinica with enterprise SAN/NAS unified storage EonStor GS 3000 Gen2 to provide performing infrastructure for conducting research HPC.

Academia Sinica, a Taiwanese academic institution, was founded in 1928 to undertake scholarly research in various fields, including mathematical, physical, and life sciences. The research data for these scientific projects requires massive storage capacity and storage performance for processing HPC workloads. The existing storage environment was no longer capable to satisfy growing demands of the research institution as it had poor performance not suitable to conduct smooth HPC analysis, didn’t provide enough capacity for growing research data, and was not easy to manage. Moreover, IT server room had limited rack space to install a new storage system. Thus, the institution was looking for a storage solution capable to resolve the aforementioned challenges.

 Academia Sinica chose GS 3000 storage to provide a basis for numeric prediction system for research needs. The set of research software does a computer model simulation and prediction of the collected data. The observation models are based on massive amounts of new observations from field sensors and rely heavily on the provided computing resources. GS 3000 Gen2 (60pcs x 12TB NL-SAS fully loaded) fits for this demanding application by providing 4,000MB/s write speed for ingesting research data and 8,000MB/s read speed for conducting research HPC. IT personnel installed GS in the limited rack space and connected to the network via 4x16Gb FC host interface. To eliminate management burden, GS provides a browser-based GUI EonOne.

“Capacity requirement for researchers’ data grows very fast. And Infortrend provides the best price/performance for scaling up,” said IT specialist of Academia Sinica.

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