{"id":658,"date":"2008-09-04T07:00:20","date_gmt":"2008-09-04T15:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.formtek.com\/blog\/?p=658"},"modified":"2008-09-04T07:00:20","modified_gmt":"2008-09-04T15:00:20","slug":"storage-the-cyberinfrastructure-initiative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/formtek.com\/blog\/storage-the-cyberinfrastructure-initiative\/","title":{"rendered":"Storage: The CyberInfrastructure Initiative"},"content":{"rendered":"

A team at the San Diego Supercomputer Center at UCSD is advancing the idea of investing <\/a>in cyber infrastructure (CI). Fran Berman, directory of the supercomputer center, says that \u201cFundamental to modern research, education, work, and life, CI has the potential to overcome the barriers of geography, time, and individual capability to create new paradigms and approaches, to catalyze invention, innovation, and discovery, and to deepen our understanding of the world around us.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Supercomputer center at UCSD has one of the largest academic storage area networks in the United States. The center is now in the middle of a project to determine how to upgrade and overhaul their current system that houses 28-petabytes. Their center contributes the bulk of the storage that is available on the multi-campus Teragrid system that supports 11 research sites for creating computer simulations and the generation of high resolution images and statistical data.<\/p>\n

Upcoming improvements to their system consist of:<\/p>\n