The U.S. Department of Energy Selects NetApp storage base for one of the most powerful supercomputers in the world

Individuals, federal agencies and companies are producing data on a massive scale and unprecedented speed. The demand to consume, store and analyze this information is driving innovation and opportunities for organizations that seek to manage intelligence in the new economy of the big data ("big data"). NetApp is working closely with the leaders of a large number of sectors to discover new ideas that will change the way organizations manage and use data.In this context, NetApp announced that the Department of Energy United States has chosen the company to provide the basis of its supercomputer storage Sequoia.

Sequoia is expected, which will be deployed in 2012 at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) in Livermore, California, is one of the most powerful supercomputers in the world, handling charges of massive-scale computing for which real-time analytics, scalable performance and safe storage are critical.

LLNL is a laboratory belonging to the Department of Energy (DoE) / National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) with the primary mission of ensuring safe and reliable nuclear deterrent old forces, without having to bury the evidence.Other missions that leverage the capabilities of high performance computing lab are the initiatives of non-proliferation, counterterrorism, energy security and climate change studies.

Sequoia will be used for various scientific and engineering applications that require the capabilities of high performance computing most advanced and innovative. The calculations will focus on nuclear security mission of LLNL, as well as in other areas of national security.Sequoia is expected to be two times faster than the current system more powerful and have a top speed of twenty thousand trillion arithmetic operations per second. As a comparison, if each of the 6,700 million people on earth had a hand calculator and worked together on a calculation 24 hours, 365 days, it would take 320 years to undertake what will be able to Sequoia in just one hour.

"The Sequoia supercomputing capabilities provide the ability to LLNL to evaluate the precision of various simulations with nuclear weapons.The simulations are essential to ensure the viability of the national nuclear weapons without having to actively test, and also provide a valuable insight into the latest technological advances, "said Michel McCoy, program director for Advanced Simulation and Computing LLNL . "Given the extraordinary capabilities of the system, we need a storage infrastructure that provides the extreme performance, scalability and reliability that are optimal for demanding applications that do."

To store and manage all critical data, LLNL will use a solution built on NetApp storage 55PB E-Series that will provide over 1 TB / sec Lustre file system.

"The Sequoia system allows the LLNL open new doors to discovery and scientific exploration," said Addison Snell, CEO of Intersect360 Research."The NetApp storage platform E-Series will play a vital role in the ability of Sequoia to process, manage and store the vast amount of data and information required for their diverse workloads."

"Increasingly, public sector organizations that are benefiting from the immense power of computing technology 'big data' provides, and LLNL is a great example of that," concludes Mark Weber, president of the division of public sector NetApp."NetApp is working very closely with organizations such as LLNL to provide innovative storage solutions that are needed today to solve tomorrow's challenges. We are proud to provide storage LLNL base for what will be one of the world's most impressive supercomputers. "

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