HPC Storage at Stanford University!
William Law Stanford Research Computing Center [email protected]!
We are a new center!
Working across disciplines, across the university.!
The grand tradition is for each research cluster to be a stand alone island.!
Backups? Who needs ‘em.! Oh, we do.!
Storage!
• AFS
• box.com
• GPFS
• Lustre
• NFS
• Full HW solutions (panasas, isilon, netapp)!
Data Transfer!
• Aspera (Enterprise, Faspex)
• Globus Online
• box.com!
Concerns!
• IOPS
• Storage Growth
• Sharing/Transfer/Workflows
• Data Integrity
• Backups
• Long Term Data Retention/Sustainability (who pays?)
• Security and Compliance (and dealing with PHI)
• Cost!
Path Forward!
Standardize platforms Use open protocols for access Provide access to common storage pools across resources!
