Hammerspace has announced that the Vanderbilt Advanced Computing Center for Research and Education (ACCRE) at Vanderbilt University has selected its high-performance data platform to modernize the center’s research data infrastructure. ACCRE will integrate Hammerspace with LStore to create a unified, scalable storage environment for its high-performance computing (HPC) resources.
ACCRE, the university’s campus-wide HPC and research support facility, manages compute and storage for workloads in artificial intelligence (AI), data analytics, and large-scale simulations. The center supports approximately 750 compute nodes and 80 GPU nodes, handling petabytes of research data. ACCRE previously maintained separate storage systems—including Panasas, IBM General Parallel File System (GPFS), and LStore—to meet the needs of diverse research projects but sought a solution to combine performance, capacity, and archive tiers into a single global namespace using commodity hardware.
By deploying the Hammerspace data platform in combination with LStore, ACCRE will operate a 10-petabyte environment that integrates CPU and GPU server-local storage for Tier 0 workloads, new commodity storage servers for Tier 1, and multi-petabyte archival storage via LStore. ACCRE reports that this unified approach will reduce its average storage costs by 48 percent and provide more agile, dynamic provisioning of storage resources to research teams.
“Hammerspace’s platform offers a composable, open architecture that lets us unify GPU server-local, tiered and archival storage into a single data environment,” said Hunter Hagewood, Executive Director of Research Computing Operations at ACCRE. “Combined with LStore, our largest and most advanced storage platform, we now have a long-term strategy for meeting strong capacity demand. This integration not only cuts our costs dramatically but also changes how we deliver compute and storage services to Vanderbilt researchers, making it easier to support the next generation of data-driven science.”
The Hammerspace platform provides centralized control over storage and supports flexible, software-defined management, aligning with ACCRE’s goals for improved efficiency and reduced vendor lock-in. The deployment is designed to benefit Vanderbilt’s research community by increasing data throughput and collaboration capabilities across multidisciplinary teams working in data center and HPC environments.
Source: Hammerspace
