SDSC Supercharges its ’Data Oasis’ Storage System

Sustained Speeds of 100 GB/s Needed to Support SDSC's 'Big Data' Initiatives. The San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at the University of California, San Diego has completed the deployment of its Lustre-based Data Oasis parallel file system, with four petabytes (PB) of capacity and 100 gigabytes per second (GB/s), to handle the data-intensive needs of the center's new Gordon supercomputer in addition to its Trestles and Triton high-performance computer systems. Using the I/O power of Gordon , Trestles , and Triton , sustained transfer rates of 100 GB/s have been measured, making Data Oasis one the fastest parallel file systems in the academic community. The sustained speeds mean researchers could retrieve or store 64 terabytes (TB) of data - the equivalent of Gordon's entire DRAM memory - in about 10 minutes, significantly reducing research times needed for retrieving, analyzing, storing, or sharing extremely large datasets. "We view Data Oasis as a solution for coping with the data deluge going on in the scientific community, by providing a high-performance, scalable storage system that many of today's researchers need," said SDSC's director Michael Norman.