STORAGE

BlueArc Titan System Chosen as Core Repository for Data-Intense Research -- BlueArc Corporation today announced that University of Minnesota has selected the company's Titan Storage System as a data repository for the University's Supercomputing Institute Basic Sciences Computing Laboratory (BSCL). The BSCL houses a wide range of research interests. Researchers have acute data requirements in computational biology, X-ray crystallography, and nuclear magnetic resonance. X-ray crystallographers at the Institute are placing heavy demands on the storage infrastructure through their research on the structure of proteins. Researchers and scientists are often creating large files which are processed once and then archived. Titan operates as the core of the BSCL and is at the center of computational biological research, supporting the storage needs of several hundred students and faculty. The 16 terabyte Titan supports both legacy SGI Irix systems and newer Linux workstations running science applications such as CCP4, CHARMM, Gaussian, InsightII, and Jaguar. "The Titan is a good storage platform for the BSCL. The performance and stability is meeting the research needs of our faculty in the Lab," said Dr. Benjamin Lynch, BSCL Manager, Supercomputing Institute, University of Minnesota. "Today's science depends upon data. Our storage needs will continue to grow and the BlueArc's upgrade path will help us get there," said Dr. H. Birali Runesha, Manager User Support, Supercomputing Institute, University of Minnesota. "BlueArc is at the heart of many of the leading research and academic facilities in the US," said Steve Daheb, vice president of marketing and business development for BlueArc. "Titan directly addresses the needs of storage environments that require unrestricted capacity found at many research facilities as well as in the enterprise."