“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

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

Massive Data Storage System

State, National and International Research

Collaboration

Integration with IU Enterprise Storage