Specifications include, but are not limited to: Furnish and delivery HPC Scratch Storage RCI is acquiring a crucial high performance storage solution to continue to support USC’s ongoing and growing research on the campus HPC cluster. The solution is intended to replace our current overcapacity and aging scratch storage. To meet our current needs and provide enough room and expansion capability for the future, we require a Spectrum Scale (previously known as GPFS) based solution, of 1.46 Petabytes of usable space. Spectrum Scale provides extreme scalability, reduces storage costs, improves security and management efficiency, and transforms data economics. We require support for at least 300 node clients (2 sockets each). We require the solution to use a software-based controller that is intended to reduce hardware overhead and cost, and enables enhanced functionality. We need a declustered raid that increases disk failure tolerance and improves rebuild duration and performance. This solution must ensure data integrity, reliability, and flexibility through end-to-end checksums against bit errors, and asynchronous, global error diagnosis. The storage must be EDR Infiniband connected, and perform reads and writes at approximately 20 GB/s for large block size files and approximately 200K+ Posix transactions per second.
