Press note. Pure Storage and CERN OpenLab are collaborating to study how flash storage will be used in the European particle physics laboratory to meet their future research needs.
Pure Storage has announced a collaboration with the CERN, whose objective is to accelerate the development of advanced ICT solutions for the great Hadron collider. This collaboration will explore the way in which Pureage Direct Flash technology can meet the needs of scientific research.
The needs of the high performance computing of CERN OpenLab
The CERN generates a huge amount of data, mainly through its high energy physics experiments in the large Hadron collider (LHC). These data have to register and stored effectively so that scientists can access them and analyze them in order to improve our understanding of the universe.
Traditional storage solutions have become bottlenecks for high performance computing, and the replacement of classic hard disk units with flash units will offer new possibilities, improving performance, density and environmental sustainability. Through a multiannual agreement, the Pure Storage data platform will help CERN OpenLAB to evaluate and measure the benefits of high -scale and large -scale storage technologies.
The research and development of CERN OpenLab focuses on how to implement the most sustainable technological solutions, prioritizing an infrastructure capable of satisfying the specific needs of the scientific community. A key element of collaboration will be the use of Pure Storage’s Direct Flash technology, which provides much greater energy efficiency and space, to admit and accelerate the workloads oriented to the performance of the High Energy Physics of the CERN.
Data storage for high energy physics experiments
Pure Storage and CERN OpenLab collaborate to make possible the next generation of storage for high energy physics experiments. Both organizations will optimize Flash infrastructure with an exabytes scale and the set of applications for Grid Computing and HPC workloads.
The joint research aims to identify the opportunities to maximize both software and hardware performance, also enhancing energy savings to a unified data platform. This collaboration, which will have several phases, will allow satisfying the growing demands of the large Hadron collider and will revolutionize the way of registering and saving the data, and will also focus on the improvement of distributed storage infrastructure.
HPC y Grid Computing: «Together with the CERN OpenLab, we are expanding the limits of what is possible in the HPC and Grid Computing environments that support the most advanced scientific workflows. With the integration of our latest generation technology in the large-scale distributed storage system of the CERN, CERN OpenLab is prepared to assume unprecedented volumes of incomparable speed and reliability, allowing scientists to face the extraordinary challenges posed by the great Hadron Hadron collision (HL-LHC).said Rob Lee, Cto de Pure Storage.
A storage of scientific data focused on the future: «We believe that this collaboration will provide key achievements for the future of data storage for scientific research. First, we hope to integrate this technology into our large -scale distributed storage system and offer data in a more efficient way, providing a way of climbing storage performance beyond what is currently possible. Secondly, we hope that we will make possible the next generation of great advances in high energies physics in CERN and that we will demonstrate to the scientific community in general the potential to improve storage capacities, accelerating, ultimately, the rhythm of discoveries and innovations in institutions dedicated to research throughout the world »explained Luca Mascetti, director of storage technology of CERN OpenLab.
