Press Release
WESTINGHOUSE NUCLEAR SELECTS TERASCALA MTS 1000 STORAGE APPLIANCE
Enables Team to Simplify High Performance Infrastructure and Increase Application Performance
AVON, Mass. – September 22, 2009 - Terascala, Inc., a provider of high throughput, high capacity storage appliances today announced that Westinghouse Electric Company, LLC has purchased and deployed Terascala’s MTS 1000 Storage Appliance to support engineering initiatives within its Nuclear Services business.
Westinghouse engineers work with both internal and external clients to provide technical analysis that supports a variety of projects, from new power plant design to power output assessments for existing plants. The company will use Terascala’s MTS 1000 Storage Appliance to deliver vast amounts of scratch storage space for data generated by engineers working with applications such as ANSYS for structural analysis and CFX for computational fluid dynamics, as well as internally developed analysis codes.
“Our engineers are working with extremely large files that contain terabytes of data. If that data was streaming across the network every day, our operation would grind to a halt. With the MTS 1000, we can offer our users large amounts of centralized storage that can be accessed any time they need it,” said Matt Sigler, an engineer in Westinghouse Nuclear Services’ Software and Systems Technology group. “The Terascala MTS 1000 delivers the high performance, high throughput and high capacity we need for our environment. We’ve been extremely pleased with the system and it helps our users and their applications work faster and more efficiently.”
Terascala’s MTS 1000 is the world’s first storage appliance with built-in redundant metadata designed to provide high availability, high throughput storage. Based on a parallel file system, the MTS 1000 features an integrated, active-passive redundant metadata server architecture and delivers extremely high throughput, high capacity and superior price/performance in a fully configured and tuned appliance.
The MTS 1000 leverages Lustre™, the leading open source clustered file system and can be used over either Ethernet or InfiniBand® networks so applications are not limited by their ability to read, write and store data rapidly. The MTS 1000 was designed to be easy to manage and deploy and delivers significant benefits to performance-driven computing environments.
“We needed to get the solution up and running quickly to meet upcoming project needs and we knew it needed to be compatible with our environment. When we looked at the Terascala product, we were immediately struck by the fact that it was ‘plug and play.’ We were able to bring the Terascala MTS 1000 in, plug it in, add the InfiniBand cables and we had the whole system up and running in three days,” Sigler added.
Rick Friedman, VP of Marketing for Terascala, said, “The MTS 1000 comes fully tuned and ready to deploy, so organizations can quickly add high performance, high capacity storage to make HPC environments more efficient. It is designed for environments like Westinghouse Nuclear which require high performance storage, and need a simple to manage, easy to use solution.”
A detailed case study is available on the Terascala website.
About Terascala
Terascala develops high throughput, high capacity, cost-effective parallel storage appliances. Delivering data over either Ethernet or InfiniBand networks and leveraging the open source Lustre® file system, Terascala’s unique storage appliance approach is changing the dynamics of the performance driven computing market, enabling existing users to do more for less while enabling new users to maximize the capabilities of their processing infrastructure.