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Research computing storage infrastructure, 2012

Research computing storage infrastructure, 2012

Brainstorming the current status and future needs of the ILRI research computing storage infrastructure.

Current situation

HPC (June, 2011)
- ~6TB of usable disk space, ~2.5TB in use right now
boran (database + VM server, January, 2012)
- ~1.5TB usable disk space, ~20GB in use right now

Timeline

May 18: Alan, Isaac, Etienne, and Mark meet to discuss projects and upcoming storage requirements. Notable:
- very real possibility of a getting an Illumina MiSeq (shorter reads, but lots and lots of overlapping data)
- Cassava genome project?
May 24: Alan and Isaac meet with NetApp storage representative ("GK" gkumawat@techno-associates.co.ke), facilitated by George Ogoti from ICT
- Existing NetApp is expandable, there are various options we can explore
- GK is going to get us a quote for the following infrastructure
  - RAID-DP (NetApp's version of RAID6, 2 disk failure)
  - Site redundancy (storage syncs nightly via fiber to ICRAF)
  - ILRI site will have two controllers for high availability
  - ICRAF site will have one controller (less critical storage)
  - Capacity 12TB or 24TB (with usable space roughly half of each figure)

Proposed architecture

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