EARTH SCIENCES

DataDirect Networks will present a paper entitled 'The Storage Challenge' at this year's FOSE 2006. Randy Kreiser, Chief Storage Architect at DataDirect Networks, will give a presentation on March 8th at 10:35am in the Washington Convention Center in Room 144C, Ground Level. Mr. Kreiser will share the stage with other presenters from APPRO, Raytheon and AMD at the private workshop 'Building a State-of-the-Art Enterprise Supercomputer', from 9am to 1pm EST. "The FOSE show has always been the premiere platform for manufacturers to present their technology and ideas to governmental agencies looking to learn and adopt new technologies and processes," said Mr. Kreiser. This must-attend workshop provides the attendees with an in-depth look at the latest technologies and best practices for High Performance Computing applications. Added Mr. Kreiser, "This workshop has great significance in light of the government's tight fiscal policy and scrutiny on expenditures for new technologies affecting compute intensive applications, and we are pleased to be a part of it." In his presentation 'The Storage Challenge', Mr. Kreiser will outline some of the challenges and solutions developed by storage vendors to address the unrelenting demands of scientific computing at a supercomputing scale. Further, he addresses how InfiniBand and DataDirect's award winning Silicon Storage Appliance (S2A) enables the creation of differentiated HPC storage solutions, like the company's S2A9500, that offers unsurpassed performance, high availability, cost effective scalability and simplified storage management. This innovative storage system delivers a lower total cost of ownership, strong ROI and infrastructure choice to government agencies. Building a high-performance, parallel networked computing environment using commodity CPU and storage devices results in a complex, hard to scale and hard to manage systems. Native InfiniBand storage systems, like the S2A9500, are designed to eliminate this complexity and enable the next innovation in performance and scalability by collapsing network and channel fabrics into one consolidated interconnect. This consolidated fabric will enable cost-effective parallel computing and it's required parallel I/O. Another key technology enabler is a parallel access InfiniBand storage solution which uses a parallel storage architecture to minimize the encumbrances of the physical hardware stack and software protocol stack, allowing for the next generation innovation in bandwidth at a vastly reduced system cost.