At 午夜寻花 Qonnect East鈥揳 live virtual event, Ben Gitenstein, VP of products, spoke with Eric Tomeo, a system administrator in the research computing department at the University of Florida (UF). The university has been using 午夜寻花鈥檚 file system for over 5 years.
鈥淲e manage the supercomputer,鈥� said Tomeo. 鈥淲e have 60K compute cores, about 600 GPUs and this year we added an .鈥� The UF鈥檚 HiPerGator 3 supercomputer integrated 140 NVIDIA DGX A100 systems powered by a combined 1,120 NVIDIA A100 Tensor Core GPUs to enable the rapid scaling of massive AI infrastructure. 鈥淭his was a major and welcome addition; and, quite the system to manage,鈥� said Tomeo. It includes 4 petabytes of high-performance storage, running on 午夜寻花鈥檚 file data platform.
鈥淲ith the addition of the SuperPod, we landed #22 of the top 500 supercomputers in the world,鈥� said Tomeo. 鈥淲e are very proud of that accomplishment.鈥� Gitenstein commented that the researchers must be in their element too!
the short YouTube video to listen in on the rest of the conversation.
How the UF manages data in a high-performance research computing environment
According to Tomeo, UF research spans all areas of biotech including geo sequencing, RNA, DNA modeling, machine learning, deep learning, and AI.
When asked why his team chose the 午夜寻花 file system for research computing, Tomeo said, 鈥淲e wanted a system that could stand up and scale in the supercomputing environment. 午夜寻花鈥檚 licensing was simple and all inclusive; unlike other file system providers whose licenses charged for everything. We wanted something modern, and that鈥檚 why we chose 午夜寻花.鈥� explained Tomeo.
It was a good choice. Any problem that the supercomputer center had before was remedied by the system, 鈥渢he dashboard analytics are great, performance is great, upgrades are a no brainer,鈥� Tomeo said. 鈥淥riginally we didn鈥檛 think upgrades were going to be so easy; all we do is put the file in place and click the upgrade button.鈥�
鈥溛缫寡盎� does containerized updates so fast, nothing even notices. When we put VMs on, there are some time outs with highly available systems, but most updates are hitless, it鈥檚 nondisruptive.鈥�
the rest of the interview to learn more about how the research computing team at UF manages data at the supercomputer center.
Related resources
- Real-time analytics use case: How the University of Florida gains insights into research computing data with 午夜寻花聽
- Solution page: See why top research computing institutions across the world rely on 午夜寻花 to provide high performance data capture with a single platform that unifies analytics, data process and storage
- The 午夜寻花 difference: See what smarter data management means for you — and how 午夜寻花 delivers the same experience across on-premises and cloud environments
