Archiving the Internet
The non-profit Internet Archive is building the world's largest free digital archive, and it has been taking snapshots of the Internet every two months since 1996. Its digital library also includes TV shows, movies, music, and books, about 2 PB of data so far, and it's growing at the speed of the Internet.
The Internet Archive needed a reliable, scalable, and efficient datacenter that could handle its massive storage needs, which increases by about 1 PB each year. To handle all this data as well as to keep energy consumption to a minimum, the Internet Archive chose to move its data to a Sun Modular Datacenter snapped into Sun's modular datacenter in Santa Clara, Calif. The portable datacenter was equipped with 60 Sun Fire X4500 Open Storage Systems.
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Standardizing IT for Energy Scientists
The Argonne National Laboratory, one of the U.S. Department of Energy's largest research centers, had to rein in its decentralized core IT infrastructure and find a more cost-effective and efficient way to deliver IT services to its 3,000 employees.
To provide one, Argonne standardized its core business systems infrastructure on Sun servers, including the Sun SPARC Enterprise M4000, and the Solaris OS, upgraded to Sun MySQL Enterprise Database, and deployed a single sign-on Web portal with the Sun Java Enterprise System.
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Sun and the Argonne National Laboratory
David Salbego, director of IT infrastructure at Argonne, talks about how Sun technologies support the scientists and their research projects at the national labs.
Powering Research about the Universe
Scientists study particle physics also at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), where they work to understand the building blocks of the universe. CERN's new particle accelerator required a system that can store 15 petabytes of data each year, collecting at a rate of hundreds of megabytes per second.
To capture this mind-boggling amount of data, CERN purchased Sun StorageTek T10000 tape drives and StorageTek SL8500 Modular Library Systems. This solution provides scalability and high-density storage in a small footprint.
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Managing Oxford's Library
The University of Oxford's library is home to some of the oldest and most significant manuscripts ever written. It houses an extensive digital media collection designed to prevent scholars from inadvertently damaging the originals and to make then accessible to students around the world.
To catalogue the library's collection of 9 million books and process students' thousands of weekly requests, Oxford needed a specialized library management system (LMS) optimized for the large distributed university environment. Oxford chose Sun partner VTLS, Inc. and Sun Fire E2900 servers running the Solaris 10 OS to host the software. The system also uses Solaris Cluster software, Sun Fire X4500 data servers, and Sun StorageTek 5800 systems.
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Putting Slovakia on the World Wide Web
The Slovak National Library is the oldest and largest national library in this small Central European country, and it's dedicated to providing modern technology to its patrons. The library now uses Sun Ray 2 technology to provide local users with free Internet access in 110 communities. The solution also lets users access its collection of Slovak literature, foreign publications, and historical documents, use open source software, and print documents.
The Sun Ray deployment includes Sun Ray 2 Virtual Display Clients, the Solaris 10 OS, Sun Ray Software 4, and OpenOffice. The library plans to add 2,000 more Sun Ray clients as well as provide access to additional centralized services, such as the Memory of Slovakia digital library.
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Preserving Holocaust Survivors' Testimonies
The USC Shoah Foundation preserves more than 52,000 testimonies from witnesses of the Holocaust collected from 56 countries and recorded in 32 languages. To better protect the videos as well as make its job more cost effective, Sun helped the Institute develop a StorageTek solution with more than 8 PB of capacity.
It includes eight Sun Fire X4500 servers, six Sun Fire X4600 M2 servers, two Sun StorageTek 6540 disk arrays, and the Sun StorageTek SL8500 Modular Library System. And it's scalable enough to hold the archive when it grows to an expected 20 PB.
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Saving History
Kim Simon, Interim Executive Director of the Shoah Foundation Institute, explains how Sun technology is helping them preserve history so they can create an archive that lasts for 500 years.
Protecting France's Written Heritage
It's up to the Bibliotheque nationale de France (BnF) to digitally preserve France's written heritage. The BnF stores 13 million books and newspapers, 250,000 volumes of manuscripts, 350,000 periodical collections, 2 million musical compositions, 1 million audio documents, and tens of thousands of videos, photographs, posters, and multimedia files.
To archive this massive collection, the BnF developed with Sun an expandable storage system that will scale to 1 petabyte by 2012. The BnF's Distributed Archiving and Preservation System is built on Sun Fire servers running Solaris 10 and using Solaris containers. It also uses Sun StorageTek SL8500 Modular Library Systems and tape drives, as well as StorageTek FlexLine storage systems.
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Storing Data for One of the World's Fastest Supercomputers
The Texas Advanced Computing center (TACC) at the University of Texas worked with Sun, other universities, and the open-source community to design one of the world's fastest high performance computing (HPC) systems dedicated to scientific research.
It's built on an open-source software stack and Sun technologies, including Sun Blade 6048 Modular Systems, Sun Fire X4500 and X4600 M2 Servers, Sun StorageTek SL8500 Modular Library Systems, Sun Grid Engine 6.2, and more.
With 3,936 nodes, 123 TB of memory, and a peak speed of 579.4 teraflops, the TACC HPC system provides more than 500 million processor hours every year to 1,000 users. Scientists are using this system to power their research into cancer, climate change, quantum mechanics, and near-space objects.
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Supporting Particle Physics Experiments
The French National Institute of Nuclear Physics and Particle Physics (IN2P3) was building the world's largest particle accelerator and needed a system that could process the 40 million particle collisions per second it would generate.
So the IN2P3 deployed 46 Sun Fire X4500 Servers with 400 TB of storage capacity, plus Sun StorageTek tape technologies, to the Worldwide LHC Computing Grid (W-LCG) where its scientists would conduct their research. The servers are running the Solaris OS, which was chosen in part for its ZFS feature.
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Archiving China's National Library
As the largest library in Asia and the fifth largest in the world, the National Library of China (NLC) has a collection that includes 270,000 rare records and 1,640,000 ancient records, and handles about 15,000 visitors a day. By 2006, the NLC had 25,704,360 volumes of material that needed to be digitally archived and made accessible to the public.
The NLC wanted to store its collections on a secure, reliable, scaleable platform and in a standard format, so it deployed a three-tier Sun storage solution. A Sun StorageTek SL8500 modular library system with 16 tape drives and 1000 slots is handling the library's archival, backup, and restore functions. The library also a Sun Fire T2000 CoolThreads server running the Solaris 10 OS and Sun's StorageTek Automated Cartridge System Library Software (ACSLS) Manager.
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