EARTH SCIENCES

DataDirect Networks, the recognized leader in high performance storage networks, will display Silicon Storage Appliance 9500 (S2A 9500) solutions which can deliver over 3 Gigabytes per second with 480 Terabytes of storage in just two racks. Designed for HPC and Rich Media, DataDirect Networks' S2A 9500 is 3.5 times faster and 10 times more scalable than other RAID storage systems in the world. All this speed and storage is housed in the industry's smallest footprint. With multiple levels of redundancy and continuous on-the-fly data protection, S2A 9500 solutions deliver enterprise-class reliability with world-class performance and capacity. S2A 9500 solutions allow HPC organizations to build cost-effective highly scalable primary and secondary storage creating solutions for parallel file systems and shared SAN file systems, high performance computing clusters and network infrastructures. DataDirect Networks will display the S2A 9500 High Performance Fibre Disk Solution, S2A 9500 Disk-Based Nearline SATA Solution, S2A 9500 InfiniBand Solution, and S2A NAS/SAN High Performance Storage Solution. DataDirect Networks' solutions will also be displayed in 13 different booths throughout the show floor including Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories (StorCloud #1116), NCSA (#1639), NextGen (#1116), Ohio Supercomputing (#1116), Sandia National Laboratories (#1116), San Diego Supercomputing (#1116), Appro (#703), IBM (#1510), Ibrix (#1647), Linux Networks (#1719), Mellanox (#902), Raytheon (#1918), and Voltarire (#1630). DataDirect Networks' is showing at Booth 713. Supercomputing 2005 is located in Seattle, Washington November 14th to 18th. More on DataDirect Networks and the Silicon Storage Appliance Over the last three years, DataDirect Networks has achieved an astounding 150 percent growth in the storage capacity shipped to its HPC customers, becoming the storage of choice for many government, academia and corporate supercomputing sites. DataDirect Networks S2A family of products are in production in 22 of the Top 50 supercomputing sites in the world with major installations at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories, Sandia National Laboratories, PCS, NCSA, NOAA, NASA and NASA Ames, NERSC, SDSC, LNXI, ORNL, Argonne National Laboratory, CEA, Dresden TUD, and many others. DataDirect Networks' successes have included the deployment of more than one petabyte (a thousand terabytes) of storage behind the World's fastest supercomputer, IBM's Blue Gene/L, at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories as well as with a cluster of Bull NovaScale SMP servers and power "Tera10", the number one supercomputer in Europe. DataDirect Networks' success is driven by its industry leading S2A, a 6th generation RAID storage networking system with FC-4 and InfiniBand front end server connectivity, and Fibre Channel and SATA back-end disk support. The S2A delivers ultra-high levels of performance (3+ GB/second), scalability (1,000 disks) and reliability (multiple levels of redundancy with continuous on-the-fly data protection with no loss of performance) across a broad range of computational, visualization, and nearline environments. DataDirect Networks' S2A offers broad infrastructure support powering compute clusters from IBM, Dell, HP, Cray, SGI, Bull and others. DataDirect Networks works closely with OEMs, well known systems integrators, and advisors who serve the needs of Government and High Performance Computing community.