White Papers

Learn more about Terascala's unique perspective and technologies.

Dell | Terascala HPC Storage Solution - A Dell Technical White Paper
This paper describes the Dell | Terascala HPC Storage Solution which delivers all the benefits of a parallel file system based storage solution in a simple to use, cost effective appliance. It includes detailed performance testing results, as well as, detailed system configurations.

Terascala Statement on Lustre Support
With some of the recent changes taking place in the marketplace related to the Lustre file system, Terascala wanted to make it clear to our customers how these changes may affect them.

Lustre Performance with a Terascala DTS 4000 System
A series of performance tests were performed on a Terascala DTS 4000 installed on the Hyperion test bed at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. The DTS 4000 solution consisted of a redundant metadata solution, Object store servers, and storage arrays and delivered up to 2.65 GB/sec of throughput per Object pair.

Simplifying High Performance Data Storage at Westinghouse
Westinghouse Nuclear Services 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 recently chose Terascala’s MTS 1000 Storage Appliance to deliver vast amounts of scratch storage space for data generated by engineers using applications such as ANSYS for structural analysis, CFX for computational fluid dynamics, and internally developed analysis codes.

Tech-X Simulation Performance Case Study
Tech-X had been running simulations using an NFS system but wanted to find a solution that would enable the company to run larger and longer simulations for both internal development and for corporate customers and scientific institutions worldwide. This case study highlights how they came to choose Terascala.

Renewable Energy Case Study
A major U.S. Government laboratory researching renewable energy and energy efficiency recently selected the Terascala™ RTS 1000 storage appliance to provide high throughput storage for its research initiatives.

Department of Energy Case Study
A major government laboratory focused on developing nuclear weapons, energy and infrastructure assurance, non-proliferation, and defense systems and assessments recently selected the Terascala™ RTS 1000 Storage Appliance to provide high throughput storage for new research initiatives.

Arizona State University Case Study
The Fulton High Performance Computing Initiative at Arizona State University needed a storage solution which could keep up with their computational capabilities. This paper is a case study on they choose the Terascala RTS 1000 storage appliance to give them the throughput performance they needed.

The Need for High Throughput Storage
This paper discusses the key factors driving the need for high throughput storage appliances.

Understanding Usable versus Raw Storage Capacity
This white paper compares the differences between raw capacity and actual usable capacity within different approaches to Lustre based storage solutions.

Performance Testing Results
A series of tests were run comparing striping and non-striping configurations with differing client node counts.

Exploration of Parallel Storage Architectures for a Blue Gene/L on the TeraGrid - paper presented at 9th LCI International Conference
Terascala is included in this paper that examines the construction of a cost-effective storage cluster for an IBM Blue Gene/L supercomputer on the TeraGrid. The performance of storage clusters constructed using commodity Opteron servers and directly-attached fibre-channel RAID systems is analyzed utilizing the GPFS, Lustre, and PVFS file systems.

Power Efficiency in a Blade Cluster
A white paper highlight Terascala’s unique approach to minimizing power consumption in our RTS 1000 storage appliances.