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Oak Ridge National Laboratory Selects DataDirect Networks Storage to Power One of the Largest & Fastest File Systems in the World

Published in Healthcare Mergers, Acquisitions and Ventures Week, December 6th, 2008

SC08 -- DataDirect Networks, Inc. (DDN) the data infrastructure provider for the most extreme, highest performance computing environments in the world, announced that it has been selected by the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) to deliver one of the world's largest and fastest file systems. Codenamed "Spider," the system is designed to deliver up to 240 gigabytes per second of single Lustre(R) file system performance and support multiple supercomputers as the underlying site-wide storage system for computational science. Spider is roughly twice as fast as the previous performance leader and stores over 10 petabytes of research data, equivalent to 1,000 copies of the printed contents in...

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