Oak Ridge National Laboratory Enhances Data Integrity and Accessibility with Active Archive Solutions

Active Archive Provides Researchers with an Efficient and Cost-Effective System for Storing and Retrieving Data

BOULDER, Colo.--()--The Active Archive Alliance today announced that Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) has upgraded its active archive solutions to enhance the integrity and accessibility of its vast amount of data. The new solutions allow ORNL to meet its increasing data demands and enable fast file recall for its users.

ORNL is home to the United States’ most powerful supercomputer for open science, Titan. Titan is capable of 27 petaflops and can handle quadrillions of calculations simultaneously for scientific simulations. More than 1,200 users have access to the supercomputer and its file storage systems, where simulation data is stored so that users can quickly and efficiently access datasets as needed.

“These active archive upgrades were crucial to ensuring our users’ data is both accessible and fault-tolerant so they can continue performing high-priority research at our facilities,” said Jack Wells, director of science for the National Center for Computational Sciences at ORNL. “Our storage-intensive users have been very pleased with our new data storage capabilities.”

The active archive solutions include Redundant Array of Independent Tapes (RAIT) technology as well as new enterprise-class tape drives and an 18 PB disk cache. The center currently has more than 120 tape drives and the ability to house 60,000 tapes. The archive has 107 PB of tape storage capacity of which 59 PB is being used at present, and it has the ability to scale to a data capacity of 498 PB.

“We are looking at best-of-breed solutions all the time, whether those be for the disk cache or tape layer or for the application managing those hierarchical storage systems,” said Quinn Mitchell, High-Performance Computing Storage System Administrator at the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF). “We are always evaluating our current storage system to find the best active archive solutions to meet both our center’s needs and the needs of the next generation of computational scientists.”

Read the full ORNL case study here.

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The Active Archive Alliance is a collaborative industry alliance dedicated to promoting active archives for simplified, access to all of your data, all of the time. Launched in early 2010, the Active Archive Alliance is a vendor neutral organization open to leading providers of active archive technologies including file systems, active archive applications, cloud storage, high density tape and disk storage. Active Archive Alliance members provide active archive solutions, best practices, and industry testimonials so that organizations can achieve fast, active access to all their data in the most cost-effective manner. Members include DDN Storage, Fujifilm Recording Media USA, HGST, Quantum, Spectra Logic and StrongBox Data Solutions. Visit www.activearchive.com for more information.

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Meredith Bagnulo, 303-513-7494
Meredith.bagnulo@activearchive.com
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Linda Dellett, 303-439-9398
linda.dellett@activearchive.com

Release Summary

Oak Ridge National Laboratory has implemented an active archive solution to enhance data integrity and accessibility.

Contacts

IGNITE Consulting
Meredith Bagnulo, 303-513-7494
Meredith.bagnulo@activearchive.com
or
Linda Dellett, 303-439-9398
linda.dellett@activearchive.com