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Intent to Participate
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Storage, file system and software vendors that are interested
in participating in SC|05 StorCloud should submit an intent to participate
by January 11, 2005.
Vendors are encouraged to review the Terms for Vendor Participation in SC|05 StorCloud
before notifying the StorCloud committee of their intent to participate.
CLICK HERE to Submit your Intent to Participate.
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SC|05 StorCloud Call for Participation
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After a successful debut at SC2004, StorCloud continues as a special initiative
for SC|05 in Seattle, WA to build a High Performance Computing (HPC) storage
capability showcasing HPC storage technologies (topologies, devices,
interconnects) and applications. Portions of StorCloud will comprise state of
the art heterogeneous devices and technologies to build a virtual on-site
"storage on request" capability to support researchers and demonstrate
high bandwidth applications at the conference. Other portions will be dedicated
to supporting specific applications with predetermined configurations and
requirements.
The goals of the "production" StorCloud are to:
- Provide 1 PetaByte or greater of randomly accessible storage to SC2005 participants.
- Approach a 1 TeraByte per second infrastructure bandwidth.
- Provide a 1 GigaByte per second backup bandwidth.
- Provide interoperability between storage systems
- Manage and allocate resources to SC2005 participants.
New to SC|05, there will be at NextGen StorCloud will showcase emerging storage
technologies.
StorCloud will be architected and deployed entirely by volunteers from government,
industry and academia. It will combine state of the art access mechanisms,
storage devices, and control/management software to provide an extreme storage
capability to conference exhibitors. The storage equipment will be attached and
assigned to host platforms throughout the convention on an as requested basis.
Host platforms will be partitioned, formatted, and use the storage as needed.
Sharing devices will also be accommodated between cooperating parties.
Additionally, StorCloud will host an applications competition, StorCloud
Challenge.
For information on the StorCloud initiative, contact us at storcloud@sc05.supercomputing.org.
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StorCloud 2004 Statistics
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- 23 vendor partners
- 49 cabinets
- ~850 terabytes capacity
- 2.3 terabits/second bandwidth
- ~30 tons of equipment
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45 miles of backbone fiber
- ~300 2Gb FC Channels
- ~188 1Gb Ethernet
- 13 miles of jumber fiber
- Consuming 300 KW
- Generating 800,000 BTU/hour
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