NCSA Offers 1 Petabyte of Spinning Disk

With the installation of an additional 112 terabytes of infrastructure storage, NCSA now provides its users with 1 petabyte of spinning disk on the floor of its machine room.

The available storage includes many file systems and configurations, which depend on the applications needing the storage and the compute engine driving them. For more information on the machines, file systems, and configurations, refer to http://dims.ncsa.uiuc.edu/set/.

In addition to the new infrastructure storage, NCSA's storage resources include:

• 370 terabytes on the Cobalt SMP
• 230 terabytes on the Mercury Linux cluster, part of the TeraGrid
• 140 terabytes on the Tungsten Linux cluster
• 60 terabytes of infrastructure SAN
• 35 terabytes on Copper
• 35 terabytes as part of the Mass Storage System
• 28 terabytes as part of the failsafe NFS system

NCSA storage resources are supervised by the Storage Enabling Technologies group.