SanDisk Helps Accelerate High Energy Physics Research for the Origin of the Universe - Supercomputing 2014
November 20 2014 - 8:00AM
Business Wire
SanDisk’s Fusion ioMemory™ Solutions Help
University of Victoria and University of Michigan Researchers Push
the Boundaries of Network Technology, Enabling New Discoveries
Supercomputing 2014—SanDisk Corporation (NASDAQ:SNDK), a
global leader in flash storage solutions, today announced that the
University of Michigan and University of Victoria (CA) are
utilizing SanDisk’s Fusion ioMemory solutions to fuel their
multi-site supercomputing project, which helps them dramatically
reduce the server footprint needed to transmit enormous datasets.
Working in conjunction with the CERN Laboratory in Geneva,
Switzerland, teams of high-energy physicists at each university are
using flash memory to push the limits of network technology,
transferring approximately 170 petabyte datasets from the Large
Hadron Collider to research centers around the world. By utilizing
Fusion ioMemory solutions, the universities can accelerate access
to data, allowing physicists to expedite the potential discovery of
new particles and forces that will help explain the nature of the
universe.
The ATLAS and CMS supercomputing projects
are two of the six particle detector experiments currently being
constructed at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) located in Geneva,
Switzerland. ATLAS will be 46 meters long and 25 meters in
diameter, and will weigh about 7,000 tons. (Photo: Business
Wire)
“SanDisk is thrilled to be working with the teams at the
University of Michigan and University of Victoria to help fuel
their success by providing fast, cost-effective and highly scalable
flash solutions to increase data access,” said Sumit Sadana,
executive vice president and chief strategy officer, SanDisk. “By
utilizing flash technology, the researchers can cost effectively
transfer massive amounts of data over long distances, ultimately
enabling them to reach new discoveries faster.”
In 2015, CERN’s Large Hadron Collider—which discovered the Higgs
boson in 2012—will start colliding elements at the highest energies
ever achieved in a particle accelerator. With this in mind, the
physicists at the Universities of Michigan and Victoria needed to
create a data transfer architecture based upon a single server that
was able to transfer figures across 100 computing centers around
the world at 100-gigabit/second speeds. Working with Fusion
ioMemory solutions, the teams were able to deploy a single server
storage environment that delivered massive data transmissions,
eliminating the need for a multi-server configuration,
significantly reducing complexity, cost, and points-of-failure. The
solution allows researchers to quickly access and analyze their
data thereby speeding discoveries.
“The ATLAS and CMS supercomputing projects are very large
international projects, each involving approximately 3,000
researchers and most of the world’s countries. These are long term
projects—they started 20 years ago and will continue for another
20+ years,” said Randall Sobie, Institute of Particle Physics
Research Scientist and Professor at University of Victoria. “My
colleagues and I are proud and excited that we have now found a way
to accelerate the discoveries made for each of these projects with
the help of flash memory solutions from SanDisk. This is a prime
example of how SanDisk helps customers meet their goals by enabling
fast, reliable access to mission-critical data.”
At SuperComputing 2014, the team of physicists under the
leadership of Professor H. Newman of Caltech, will leverage Fusion
ioMemory solutions to transfer data over the wide-area network
(WAN) located at the University of Victoria, to the WAN in the
University of Michigan booth (#3569), via the Caltech booth
(#3115).To experience these environments first hand, stop by their
booths for a live demo. Additional information about Fusion
ioMemory solutions can be found on the company’s website or
enterprise blog.
About SanDisk
SanDisk Corporation (NASDAQ: SNDK), a Fortune 500 and S&P
500 company, is a global leader in flash storage solutions. For
more than 25 years, SanDisk has expanded the possibilities of
storage, providing trusted and innovative products that have
transformed the electronics industry. Today, SanDisk’s quality,
state-of-the-art solutions are at the heart of many of the world's
largest data centers, and embedded in advanced smartphones, tablets
and PCs. SanDisk’s consumer products are available at hundreds of
thousands of retail stores worldwide. For more information, visit
www.sandisk.com.
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