The storage at OSC consists of servers, data storage subsystems, and networks providing a number of storage services to OSC HPC systems. The current configuration consists of:
- A NetApp Network Attached Storage (NAS) for home directories (0.8 PB of storage, 10 GB/s bandwidth)
- A DDN GRIDScaler for project storage (3.4 PB of storage, 40-50 GB/s bandwidth)
- A DDN GRIDScaler for global scratch (1.1 PB of storage, 100 GB/s bandwidth)
- An IBM ESS to provide additional project and scratch storage, and add support for various protected data requirements (8.4 PB of storage, 100 GB/s bandwidth)
- Local disk storage on each compute node
- One IBM 3584 tape robot for backups and archival:
- 20 LTO-6 tape drives
- 11+ PB of LTO tapes
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