The University of California, San Diego's (UCSD) San Diego Supercomputer Center has launched a massive cloud storage system designed for academic users.
Featuring an initial raw capacity of 5.5 PB, the cloud system is specifically designed for researchers, students, academics, and industry users for storing and sharing digital information, including extremely large datasets, according to the university. The Web-based system is completely disk-based and interconnected by 10-Gb Ethernet switching technology, UCSD said.
It has sustained read rates of 8 to 10 GB per second and is scalable by orders of magnitude to hundreds of petabytes, UCSD said.
Users and research partners participating at launch include, among others, UC San Diego's Libraries, School of Medicine, Rady School of Management, Jacobs School of Engineering, and Supercomputer Center researchers, as well as federally funded research projects from the National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health, and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
