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IBRIX today announced that Purdue University has deployed the IBRIX Fusion Parallel File System, an enterprise-class, software-based scalable file serving solution for its three primary clusters, totaling 914 nodes and nearly 14 teraflops, located at the University's Rosen Center for Advanced Computing. Providing advanced computing resources and services to support computationally intensive research nationwide, the Rosen Center for Advanced Computing supports a variety of research projects, including scientific visualization, geoinformatics and climate modeling, which is used to accurately predict future weather patterns. The Rosen Center also supports Purdue's Network for Computational Nanotechnology (NCN), responsible for conducting research on computational methods to solve engineering and scientific challenges in the areas of nanoelectronics, nanoelectromechanical systems, and their application to nano-biosystems. "IBRIX is a very scalable, high-speed file system," said Michael Shuey, HPC Technical Architect at the Rosen Center for Advanced Computing. "Many of our researchers require rapid access to terabytes of data from hundreds of compute nodes, and IBRIX delivers the performance they need." "IBRIX continues to set itself apart by delivering superior scalable file system solutions that tackle our customers' high-performance computing needs," said Joe DeRosa, Vice President of Marketing, IBRIX. "IBRIX Fusion ensures increased application performance with linear scalability of I/O throughput for the largest of clusters and the most massive of datasets, allowing our customers to create a single namespace up to petabytes in size while eliminating costly replication and migration issues."