This expansion required the formation of the largest realm of Panasas storage worldwide, which is managed by a single systems administrator. Thousands of users worldwide find, manipulate and analyze data held on JASMIN, which processes an average of 1-3PB of data every day.
STFC and the UK’s Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) pioneered climate data analysis at petabyte scale with the JASMIN infrastructure. JASMIN is a highly flexible system combining petabytes of high-performance storage with batch and cloud computing over terabit-bandwidth networking to support data analysis at scale for all UK environmental science communities and their worldwide collaborators.
JASMIN underlies many environmental scientific efforts, including the World Climate Research Programme (WCRP) global model intercomparison project (CMIP5,6) which feeds into the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) reports, and programs such as the Global Surface Displacement Monitoring program, which collects data from space on a global scale to monitor and model earthquakes, volcanoes, tectonics and the retreat of ice.
“We are proud of our long-term partnership with RAL and STFC, and of our ability to facilitate research that protects the lives and livelihood of all who inhabit the planet,” said Faye Pairman, chief executive officer at Panasas. “We remain committed to meeting STFC’s needs for affordable storage solutions that deliver performance, reliability and manageability at any scale, without compromise.”
