The supercomputing department of the Technological and Renewable Energy Institute (ITER)public entity dependent on the Council of Tenerife, has completed the expansion of the storage system available for the center’s supercomputers.
The renewal of the storage system and the increase in installed capacity will have a significant impact in the field of high performance computing. The increased storage capacity will allow researchers to carry out more ambitious investigations and analyze more complex data. At the same time, the renewal of the equipment improves the efficiency and reliability of the storage, guaranteeing the integrity of the data and the continuous availability of the system.
Both TeideHPC and AnagaGPU will benefit from the expansion of the storage system by renewing its storage cabins and increasing the total storage capacity from 1.3 to 2.4 PB (the equivalent of about 24,000 movies in 4K format).
The upgrade and expansion consisted of adding a new dual controller to the storage cluster along with new high capacity drives. Thus, four individual controllers that were already obsolete have been replaced and approximately 500TB of hard drives that had reached the end of their useful life have been removed.
This new infrastructure takes up less physical space and consumes less power, making the new configuration more energy efficient.
In addition, the storage system has been interconnected to the computing nodes through multiple 100Gbps links, with an aggregate bandwidth of 800Gbps, replacing the 10Gbps links, which added a bandwidth of 200Gbps. In other words, the total bandwidth with which the storage system presents the information to the connected clients has been multiplied by four.
The expansion of the storage system is a milestone within the strategy of renewal and expansion of the capacity of the computing infrastructure offered by ITER through its supercomputing department. This process began with the installation of AnagaGPU for the diversification of the type of computing services offered or the promotion of current technologies such as Artificial intelligence. Likewise, the improvement of the CPU-based computing infrastructure is expected in the near future.
