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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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