Terascala Teams With National Center for Supercomputing Applications

Terascala, Inc. has joined the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) Private Sector Program to extend the development and capabilities of Lustre, one of the industry’s most widely deployed open source parallel file systems.

NCSA, located at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, provides powerful computers and expert support thousands of scientists and engineers across the country.

Terascala will provide storage hardware, engineering support, and hands-on training as a member of NCSA’s Private Sector Program, which helps companies leverage HPC to improve their modeling and simulation efforts and enhance competitiveness.

Terascala storage appliances are pre-configured with Lustre and remove I/O bottlenecks in simulation, analysis, and modeling environments, accelerating the time to insight for research and engineering organizations.

"Scientific computing customers require the fastest throughput available to enable their research and analysis to complete as quickly as possible," said Steve Butler, CEO, Terascala. "Terascala will work with NCSA to understand their application environments and to leverage the collective Lustre skill set, ultimately driving improvements that will speed the digital manufacturing process."

"Increasingly manufacturers rely more on digital modeling and prototyping to quicken the pace of product development, and we want to be sure these tools are within reach of our partners, regardless of company size," said Merle Giles, NCSA’s director of business and economic development. "Terascala’s membership and resource commitment will benefit digital manufacturing in the areas of high-performance throughput and parallel file system management, and we’re pleased to welcome them as a new member of the Private Sector Program."

In addition to Lustre, Terascala storage appliances include tools for HA, system monitoring, health check and break/fix; event logging and alerts; application tuning; and workflow.

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