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Monday, June 7, 2010

NFS alternative meets Los Alamos National Laboratory's high-performance computing needs

The high-performance computing (HPC) team at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico is looking for a NFS alternative to benefit its supercomputing processing.

The Los Alamos National Laboratory is home to the federal government's weapons research facility, which uses Panasas Inc. network-attached storage (NAS) for its research data.

However, the laboratory can't use NFS for weapons research because it doesn't scale high enough, said Gary Grider, deputy division leader for high-performance computing. So the lab uses Panasas' proprietary DirectFlow parallel client technology, as well as IBM's General Parallel File System (GPFS) and Oracle Corp.'s Lustre parallel file system.

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