LSI Joins Hyperion Project at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Company to collaborate with industry leaders to accelerate development of next-generation Linux clusters
AUSTIN, Texas, Nov. 18 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- SC08 -- LSI Corporation
(NYSE: LSI) today announced that it has teamed with nine computing industry
leaders at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) to accelerate the
development of powerful next-generation Linux(R) clusters.
In this effort, called the Hyperion Project, LSI(TM) joins other leading
technology providers Cisco, Dell, DDN, Intel, Mellanox, QLogic, RedHat, Sun
and Supermicro to create a large-scale testbed for high-performance computing
(HPC) technologies critical to the stockpile stewardship missions of the
National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA). In addition, the participants
intend to make petaFLOP/s (quadrillion floating operation per second)
computing systems more affordable for governmental and commercial research
organizations.
"The Hyperion Project provides LSI with a unique opportunity to develop
and test hardware and software technologies on an unprecedented scale," said
Dave Ellis, director, HPC architecture, LSI. "Our participation in the project
enables us to provide innovative, next-generation storage solutions to our
high-performance computing customers and OEMs in substantially less time."
The first half of Hyperion is now online. LSI contributed the first
storage system installed on the Hyperion cluster, an Engenio(R) 7900 HPC
storage system with initial capacity of over 384 terabytes of data and
utilizing a 20 Gb/s InfiniBand(R) host interface.
"LSI will help push the bandwidth to disk from clusters such as Hyperion,"
said Mark Seager, head of advanced computing technology at LLNL. "Hyperion
serves as a testbed upon which this capability will be proven out such that
other cluster users can be confident in the greatly increased capability."
NNSA's Advanced Simulation and Computing (ASC) program uses some of the
world's most powerful computers to simulate nuclear weapons performance and
related scientific phenomena. High-resolution 3D simulations are a cornerstone
of stockpile stewardship -- the effort to ensure the safety, security and
reliability of the nation's nuclear deterrent without nuclear testing.
Designed for compute-intensive applications and high-bandwidth workloads,
the 7900 HPC storage system combines leading-edge performance with enterprise-
class availability and reliability features for applications requiring
continuous high-speed data accessibility. Based on LSI seventh-generation XBB2
architecture, the 7900 HPC storage system benefits from more than thirty years
of LSI design and development expertise. LSI has deployed more than 60
petabytes of data in HPC environments and shipped nearly 400,000 storage
systems across a wide range of workloads and market segments.
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