SUNNYVALE, Calif., Nov. 10 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- The stewards of
America's nuclear stockpile have selected storage systems from Silicon
Graphics, Inc. (SGI) (Nasdaq: SGIC) to keep pace with growing data volumes and
to get to that information quickly and efficiently.
Sandia National Laboratory in Albuquerque, N.M., recently installed an
SGI(R) InfiniteStorage 4600 solution capable of housing more than 1.8
Petabytes (or 1.8 million Gigabytes) of scientific data. The system provides
the extreme data throughput required for high-speed, distributed access to
data, a must-have capability in supercomputing environments where the amount
of data -- and the power needed to process it -- is rapidly increasing.
Sandia scientists evaluate the safety and operational effectiveness of
thousands of nuclear warheads using advanced techniques to model the entire
lifecycle of a nuclear weapon. These large-scale simulations allow scientists
to understand the lifecycle of nuclear stockpiles without resorting to
underground detonations. The simulations put enormous demands on the storage
environment at Sandia, a facility of the Department of Energy's National
Nuclear Energy Administration.
The Sandia storage environment is comprised of 17 InfiniteStorage 4600
systems, based on the seventh-generation LSI(TM) XBB2 architecture, and is
designed to reach a sustained data exchange rate of 72 Gigabytes per second.
This, combined with the system's high reliability features, makes the Silicon
Graphics storage platform ideal for highly demanding workloads.
Sandia purchased the systems via a contract with Abba Technologies
(http://www.abbatech.com), a Silicon Graphics solutions integrator based in
Albuquerque.
Quotes:
-- "Few endeavors in science are more crucial than evaluating the nuclear
arsenal for safety, security, and reliability, and that's the mission of
Sandia National Laboratory," said Kurt Kuckein, RAID product line manager,
Silicon Graphics. "Silicon Graphics is proud to work with LSI and Abba
Technologies to deliver a high-performance storage solution that will reliably
meet Sandia's needs today, while providing the scalability to meet its
evolving needs years from now."
-- "The LSI XBB2 storage system architecture is ideally suited to meet the
storage performance demands of Sandia's nuclear simulations," said Steve
Hochberg, senior director, HPC segment, LSI. "With nearly 400,000 LSI-based
storage systems deployed in HPC environments worldwide through our OEM
customers, LSI is trusted by market-leading OEMs such as Silicon Graphics to
deliver the superior performance and reliability needed to meet their
customers' storage requirements."
Demonstrations at SCO8:
Silicon Graphics will demonstrate the SGI InfiniteStorage 4600 system in
Booth 1009 at the SC08 International Conference, Nov. 15-21 at the Austin
Convention Center in Austin, Texas.
Additional Product Information:
-- SGI InfiniteStorage Solutions for the Sciences: Reducing Time to
Insight through Sophisticated Data Management
-- SGI InfiniteStorage 4600 data sheet
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