Press Release
YottaYotta
Selected for DICE Program
GSX
3000 to Provide High Performance Global Data Sharing across Three
Government Agencies
ALEXANDRIA, VA,
March 6, 2006 – – YottaYotta, the High Performance Netstorage®
Company, announced today that Computer Sciences Corporation
(CSC) has selected the GSX 3000 for the Data Intensive Computing
Environment (DICE) program to enable high performance global data
sharing across Department of Defense (DoD), Department of Energy (DOE),
and NASA facilities. The GSX 3000 will be deployed at
Wright-Patterson’s Aeronautical Systems Center Major Shared Resource
Center (ASC MSRC) in Dayton Ohio, the Ohio Supercomputer Center (OSC)
in Springfield Ohio, and NASA Goddard in Greenbelt Maryland.
The DICE program is a new approach to investigating technology
solutions that can address the challenges associated with the creation
and use of large quantities of data across geographically distributed
agencies over real-world wide area networks. The concept originated at
the ASC MSRC, who named the Advanced Virtual Engine Test Cell (AVETeC)
Inc. as the Principal Investigator, and CSC as the manager and
integrator of the DICE program. DICE provides a multi-agency
environment aimed at reducing the time-to-solution for complex data
intensive problems in a diverse geographical setting.
YottaYotta’s GSX 3000 offers a suite of Global Block Services that sets
a new standard for high-performance, resilient global data sharing and
fully-active business continuity, also known as continuity of
operations (COOP). The GSX 3000 NetStorage Control Node opens up new
approaches to managing and implementing critical storage applications,
including transparent multi-site data sharing, fully-active site-aware
geographic access, heterogeneous RAID, continuous-access data migration
and consolidation, and high-speed data transport. The result is
optimization of distributed IT resources, improved distributed data
processing performance, reduced time-to-solution for data-intensive
workflows, and high performance global data access and distribution
with reduced WAN traffic.
The DICE program’s compute environment must accommodate a variety of
users from different agencies across multiple disparate locations –
each with varying demands on the storage and network infrastructure. A
typical high performance computing (HPC) setting can have many
disparate user groups producing massive amounts of data to solve
complex and interdisciplinary problems.
“A critical challenge is to effectively manage the data across multiple
geographically distributed centers, while improving accessibility and
avoiding the typical delays associated with remote I/O or file
transfer,” said Donna Klecka, Program Manager for CSC’s High
Performance Computing Center of Excellence. “We look forward to
deploying YottaYotta’s GSX 3000 across DICE’s facilities in order to
tackle these challenges.”
“The DICE program is a customer environment with high performance data
sharing, access, and distribution requirements that far exceed what is
currently offered by traditional storage networking solutions or newer
wide area file sharing approaches,” said Jack Kurtz, Vice President of
Business Development at YottaYotta. “With the GSX 3000, users across
the DICE environment are provided with read and write access to a
single shared data image – while minimizing WAN traffic and avoiding
the performance penalties of transporting data across distance. In
effect, YottaYotta can enable disparate server and storage resources at
the DoD, DOE, and NASA to operate as if they were all in the same room.”
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About YottaYotta
YottaYotta is setting the new enterprise standard for resilient,
high-performance global data sharing and fully-active continuity of
operations (COOP). The GSX 3000 NetStorage Control Node and
YottaYotta’s suite of Global Block services localize access to globally
coherent data, enabling organizations to leverage their entire storage
infrastructure across multiple distributed sites while providing a
significant reduction in WAN traffic. The result is increased
utilization of IT resources, SAN performance over the WAN, and
continuity of operations despite site failures and network
disruptions. Founded in January 2000, YottaYotta is privately
funded with offices in Edmonton, AB and Alexandria, VA. For more
information go to www.YottaYotta.com.
YottaYotta,
NetStorage, NetStorager, UNITY Pilot, and YYESS are registered
trademarks of YottaYotta, Inc. All other trademarks mentioned herein
are the property of their respective owners.
For further information contact:
Robert Handlovsky
Director, Marketing
YottaYotta, Inc.
(780) 989-6883
rhandlovsky@yottayotta.com
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