Delivering High-Throughput Science With Brocade Gen 6 Fibre Channel and Hitachi Flash Storage Queensland Brain Institute Corin O’Connell General Manager, Hitachi Business Unit, Global OEM SAN Sales, Brocade
What is Queensland Brain Institute? § The Queensland Brain Institute is one of the largest (and probably the most computationally + storage intensive) neuroscience research focused institutes in the world. ‒ Labs are dedicated to understanding the fundamental mechanisms that regulate brain function. § We’re working to solve some of the greatest problems that humanity faces in terms of mental illness. § QBI is an early adopter. We are the crazy ones.
Massive Multi-domain Consolidation in an Object DB NGS/Genomics sequencers DICOM/Human model data Multi-PB object databases for translational workload correlation Bioinformatic analytics High end effectively super-res + confocal microscopy Ephys + DBS
And it is Getting Worse “Our researchers deal with very large neuroscientific datasets from a multitude of cutting edge instrumentation including microscopes, genome sequencers and MRI scanners. Modernizing the data center with high performance infrastructure, Hitachi’s VSP G series, and leveraging the tight integration with Brocade and Oracle, allows us to deliver better outcomes for science and society.” Jake Carroll, Senior IT Manager for Research, Queensland Brain Institute
The QBI Challenge § Keep pace with petabytes of brain research data and “It’s extremely hard to keep pace with high-throughput analysis large volumes of data and the high- performed on large capacity throughput analysis that researchers solid-state drives (SSD) and need. Part of my job is to make sure that our network and storage systems provide flash storage arrays a friction-free path to data generation, analysis, storage and computation.” Jake Carroll, Senior Information Technology Manager of Research, QBI
How Large is Large? § 8.5 petabytes of unstructured data + hundreds of terabytes per week Conventional microscopy Super-resolution microscopy
IOPS Intensive Storage Network Environment § Typically more than 100 researchers will simultaneously move data at 2.2 GB per second in and out of storage in daily operations
Don’t Let the Network Become the Bottleneck § Brain imaging and genomics applications run on flash “You want to get all the performance one storage arrays, but their can out of a flash and solid-state drives and arrays. You want to maximize the switching demands were investment, liberate the input/output (IO) overwhelming the existing and provide a better outcome for network research. If your network fabric is too small or has high latency, you’re not maximizing your investment.” – Jake Carroll, Senior Information Technology Manager of Research, QBI
QBI Chooses Brocade Gen 6 Fibre Channel § The highest reliability with low latency for their researchers’ needs § With built-in instrumentation, high scalability and performance increases that scale to hundreds of millions of IOPS, the Brocade G620 switches and fibre channel fabric break previous barriers to faster science
Brocade Fabric Vision Fabric Vision “Brocade Fabric Vision technology allows us to do some really cool stuff. It’s much easier to do zoning work, updates and log statistics. With the map, we can see in entirety what we actually have in production and make sure that it’s what we thought we had.” – Jake Carroll, Senior Information Technology Manager of Research, QBI
Future-Proof, NVMe-Ready § Seamlessly integrate next- generation NVMe over fabrics with Gen 6 fibre “Brocade switches tend to go forever channel networks without a until you tell them to stop. With disruptive rip and replace Brocade Gen 6 Fibre Channel, we’re already NVMe-ready so we won’t have to rip and replace. It’s state-of-the-art.” – Jake Carroll, Senior Information Technology Manager of Research, QBI
No Compromises “Enabling researchers to mobilize their work or generate their data at the speed they need to is the one thing that has to be on time and consistent in order to remain competitive.” “Our Brocade fabric is as good as it can be. There is no compromising researchers’ ability to perform high- throughput science. That is what researchers appreciate.” – Jake Carroll, Senior Information Technology Manager of Research, QBI
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