November 9, 2011 | LSI Corporation (NYSE: LSI) today announced that
PSSC Labs has selected LSI™ 3ware® 6Gb/s SATA+SAS RAID controller cards
for integration with its PowerWulf Cluster high-performance computing
(HPC) solutions. The combination of LSI 3ware 9750 series controllers
and PowerWulf Clusters is designed to provide researchers in the life
sciences community with a high-performance, turnkey solution capable of
addressing both the computational and data capacity requirements of
genome sequencing applications.
"Genome sequencing research can produce terabytes of data in a single
run, putting immense pressure on computer processing power and data
storage capacity," said Alex Lesser, vice president, PSSC Labs. "LSI’s
products are extremely reliable, easy to configure and cost effective.
They are a perfect match for our specifications and the laborious
requirements of our end customers."
PSSC Labs PowerWulf Clusters are high-performance computing systems,
which include the Raid Station VPR-NXXL, the storage solution within the
system. Raid Station VPR series solutions are powered by 3ware RAID
technologies, which help optimize and increase system performance,
allowing researchers to conduct more sequencing runs and focus on
experiments and analysis rather than management of the cluster.
PSSC Labs selected LSI 3ware RAID controllers over competitive solutions
based on the high performance and proven reliability they achieved in
PSSC Labs' rigorous testing processes. Internal tests conducted for Raid
Station products, even when using lower-performance 3Gb/s SATA drives,
yielded sequential throughput performance exceeding 1TB per second, with
reads of up to 1,100MB/sec and writes of up to 946MB/sec. (1)
PowerWulf Clusters also provide massive amounts of available RAID
storage space. Each PowerWulf Cluster includes a minimum of 10TB of
available storage, which can be easily expanded to several hundred
terabytes. Utilizing LSI 600 series JBOD storage enclosures, which are
fully compatible with LSI 3ware RAID controllers, users can
cost-effectively expand and scale storage capacity to meet rapidly
escalating data volumes.
"In genome sequencing labs, scientists are undertaking potentially
life-changing research, and it is essential that their efforts are not
hindered by the limitations of information technology," said Brent
Blanchard, worldwide channel sales and marketing director, LSI. "LSI has
a long and successful history of delivering high-performance storage
solutions to government and university-based labs and private research
institutions. We're excited that PSSC Labs has selected LSI 3ware RAID
technologies to boost the storage capabilities of their HPC systems for
life sciences research."
LSI 3ware SATA+SAS RAID controllers and LSI 600 series JBODs are
available through a worldwide network of distributors, integrators and
VARs. Additional product information is available at the LSI Channel
Gateway (www.lsi.com/channel).
About LSI
LSI Corporation (NYSE: LSI) is a leading provider of innovative silicon,
systems and software technologies that enable products, which
seamlessly bring people, information and digital content together. The
company offers a broad portfolio of capabilities and services including
custom and standard product ICs, adapters, systems and software that are
trusted by the world's best known brands to power leading solutions in
the Storage and Networking markets. More information is available at www.lsi.com.
(1) Actual test included two LSI 3ware 9650SE-12 port 3Gb/s SATA
controllers running RAID 5, LVM striped into one volume under XFS.
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