When Time is of the Essence: Wroclaw Centre for Networking and Supercomputing Speeds Understanding of Sea Level Change with DDN Storage and Advanced Lustre File Sharing
Customer Company Size
Large Corporate
Region
- Europe
Country
- Poland
Product
- DDN’s SFA12KX®
- DDN EXAScaler®
Tech Stack
- Intel® Enterprise Edition for Lustre software
- InfiniBand host-port
Implementation Scale
- Enterprise-wide Deployment
Impact Metrics
- Productivity Improvements
- Innovation Output
Technology Category
- Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Cloud Storage Services
Applicable Industries
- Education
- Life Sciences
Applicable Functions
- Product Research & Development
- Quality Assurance
Use Cases
- Predictive Maintenance
- Process Control & Optimization
Services
- Cloud Planning, Design & Implementation Services
- Data Science Services
About The Customer
Wroclaw Centre for Networking and Supercomputing (WCSS) is a unit of the Wroclaw University of Technology. It provides more than 3,000 scientists and researchers at the university and other academic institutions with cutting-edge computational tools and high-performance storage to support a wide range of scientific research. As one of Poland’s five national supercomputing centers, WCSS takes advantage of advanced computing capabilities, including a recently acquired computer cluster that ranks among the 100 fastest computers in the world. This supercomputing power enables WCSS to ensure fast, reliable and secure access to large data files and vast amounts of scientific research. With its highly innovative technology infrastructure, WCSS supports scientific breakthroughs in acoustics, chemistry, informatics, life sciences, mechanics, molecular biology, physics and other scientific disciplines.
The Challenge
Wroclaw Centre for Networking and Supercomputing (WCSS) was facing challenges in supporting the processing and collection of increasingly large, complex, data-intensive scientific weather and geographic models. The temporary or scratch storage was required to address data growth across diverse scientific projects. The center needed to deliver access and capacity to support the work of over 3,000 scientists and researchers. There was an escalating need to address mixed workloads across a complicated, heterogeneous ecosystem of hardware and applications.
The Solution
WCSS implemented DDN’s SFA12KX® family of high-performance storage which delivers industry-leading performance, capacity and density. The DDN EXAScaler® file system ensures ample storage available to all network nodes with fully parallel I/O across clients, servers and storage. The solution also supports Intel® Enterprise Edition for Lustre software to resolve HPC storage and throughput challenges. The robust storage meets needs for shared access to project data from several hundred jobs at the same time. The solution also provided optimized InfiniBand host-port options for delivering seamless connectivity between servers and storage.
Operational Impact
Quantitative Benefit
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