Re: Seeking Netapp and Sun lifesci users ...

Chris Dagdigian wrote:
> 
> Hi folks,
> 
> I'm working with a group of people building out a new research computing 
> environment. A few of the IT staff would really like to converse with 
> (and potentially visit) groups who are using Network Appliance storage 
> devices or Sun Microsystems servers (running Linux or Solaris) in life 
> science HPC environments.

At the risk of spamming, we have a 5U 36TB storage appliance that is ... 
uh ... kinda fast (RAID6) doing iSCSI, NAS, CIFS, ... specifically 
designed for HPC workloads,  and less expensive that other folks systems 
... Bug me offline if you want benchmark data 
(http://scalableinformatics.com/public/IOzone-JR-baseline.png) ...

> If anyone here on this forum would be willing to talk (under mutual 
> confidentiality agreement) with 1 or 2 people from this team I'd 
> appreciate it. I can arrange introductions.

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