Ocarina Networks has partnered with the Cornell Center for Advanced Computing (CAC) and Datadirect Networks (DDN) to advance the state of lossless data reduction and storage optimisation.
Cornell is performing extensive data compression testing across a wide range of research applications, using the Ocarina Ecosystem.
The Ecosystem reads stored files and uses content-aware compression and deduplication to reduce the amount of space those files take.
It includes multiple data compressors for the types of files commonly found in research computing environments, and includes over 100 algorithms that support 600 file types.
Testing is occurring on DDN's S2A9700 high-performance storage platform, deployed at Cornell.
The S2A (Silicon Storage Architecture) technology can manage up to 1.2 petabytes in only two floor tiles and deliver sustained throughput of up to 6 Gbytes/s for both writes and reads, per appliance.
