INDUSTRY

IBRIX announced that the University of Tennessee (UT) at Chattanooga has deployed the IBRIX Fusion fully-integrated parallel file system for its 543-node, 21 terabyte diskless supercomputer cluster located at the University's computational simulation and design center, the SimCenter. The UT SimCenter at Chattanooga develops advanced computational algorithms and simulation software for use in a broad range of engineering analysis and design optimization problems, serving both private industry and government. "IBRIX Fusion has provided the SimCenter with extremely high levels of scalability in both bandwidth and capacity," said Wally Edmondson, systems administrator at the UT SimCenter at Chattanooga. "We have experienced accelerated access speed in the processing of massive datasets which has resulted in greater cluster efficiencies and faster delivery of software programs to our clients." Through computational engineering, the UT SimCenter at Chattanooga runs simulations on its 543-node diskless supercomputer cluster that solves engineering problems associated with fluid flow and structural properties of aircraft, ships, submarines, automobiles, jet and rocket propulsion engines, buildings, and other structures. "By putting in place a compute cluster with increased application performance and scalability, the UT SimCenter at Chattanooga is competitively positioned to better meet the requirements of its customers and the demands of their data intensive simulations," said Joe DeRosa, vice president of marketing, IBRIX. "IBRIX Fusion multi-purpose file storage solutions are economical and easy-to-use, enabling a powerful cluster computing environment that delivers linear scalability on throughput and capacity."