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Brookhaven National Laboratory uses DDN storage

by on14 October 2020


All-NVME flash appliance storage for fast

AI based flash drive maker  DDN has flogged its wares to the Brookhaven National Laboratory, one of 10 national laboratories overseen and primarily funded by the Office of Science of the US Department of Energy (DOE).

Brookhave wanted DDN’s A3I AI400X  all-NVME flash appliance storage for fast optimum experimental design for its Computational Science Initiative (CSI). 

The CSI’s Advanced Computing Lab uses high-performance systems and software architectures and will use the AI400X to provide a true collaborative environment for scientists and technologists from government laboratories and academia agencies.

Designed as a focal point for development, testing and testbed deployment, CSI’s Advanced Computing Lab helps to address Big Data questions and challenges in data-intensive applications within nuclear and particle physics, biology, nanoscience, sustainable energy, environmental science, and homeland security.

The outfit said that its  AI400X when connected to the Nvidia DGX-2 enhances CSI’s system capabilities for AI workloads in the datacentre. Delivering the fastest performance for AI workflows at any scale, the AI400X provides up to 48GBps of throughput, more than 3 million IOPS and up to 256TB of usable NVMe capacity in a 2U form factor. DDN AI400X keeps AI compute systems, often GPU based, fully saturated with I/O, ensuring maximum use while managing tough AI data operations.

DDN senior vice president James Coomer said: “By partnering with Brookhaven National Laboratory and the implementation of the AI400X, we will help propel advances at the frontiers of science throughout the nation and across the world.”

Last modified on 14 October 2020
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