CEA Selects Seanodes

PARIS -- Seanodes, inventor of the Shared Internal Storage” concept, announced today that their SIS product, Exanodes, has been selected by the French Nuclear Agency (CEA) to improve – at low cost - both data access availability and performance on three of their departmental cluster which are used by over a hundred research engineers on a daily basis.

This department’s key research area is the analysis of hydraulic and thermo-hydraulic phenomena. The team’s main objective is to improve the safety and longevity of nuclear power plants through simulations, and incident & accident calculations. They are also currently carrying out in-depth research on next generation power plants and confidential military defense projects.

Within this department data management and data storage had come to be of vital importance with the sophistication of the simulation models used, and the increasing granularity of the calculations which generates ever increasing data volumes. The evolution of storage infrastructures had become inevitable in order to respond to the following criteria :

Exanodes was chosen for its capacity to answer these questions efficiently and cost effectively.

"One week’s evaluation of Exanodes allowed us to see that the cluster’s users were able to combine simplicity of use with first class performance. Using the disks already present in the cluster, Exanodes represents a minor investment in comparison with the performance it allows you to obtain” explains Emmanuel Dorlet, IT Manager for CEA DEN/DM2S/SFME.

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