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“Indiana University should continue to execute and accelerate an incremental and extensible strategy that enhances its overall storage infrastructure from online storage to long-term archival storage. Dependable archival storage must include a commitment to ongoing and periodic data validation and maintenance for reading and migrating the data to newer formats .”
- The Final Report of the Indiana University Cyberinfrastructure Research Task Force May 2005
Research Computing Storage
Conceptual View Massive Data Storage System
“Big Red” Supercomputer
RFS
Data Capacitor
GPFS &Home Directories
RDBMS Storage
Data Capacitor Architecture
Force-10 Switch
clientsmetadata servers
twenty-four object storage servers attached to shared storage
Data Capacitor Research Examples
• Dr. Caty Pilachowski, Astronomer at IU• Investigating the evolution of stars• Project scientist for design of WIYN telescope• ODI promises 1 billion pixels/image by 2009
• IU Physicist, Chuck Horowitz – Nuclear Pasta• Studying the behavior of nuclear matter near saturation
density
• IU Analytical Chemist, David Clemmer• Biomolecular sequencing• Builds his own instruments
• IU Chemist, John Huffman• X-ray Crystallography