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DICE: Data Intensive Computing Environment
Real Testing * Real Data * Real Results
DICE Partners with Obsidian Strategics for Secure Large-Scale Data Migration Study
Springfield, Ohio, July 22, 2010 – Avetec’s Data Intensive Computing Environment (DICE) Program has partnered with Obsidian Strategics, Inc., maker of Longbow™ InfiniBand range-extension, routing and encryption products, to study the effectiveness and efficiency of Longbow E100 devices for encrypted data movement between high performance computing clusters using a file-level data migration tool called 'dsync.'
“This technology already enables high performance network connectivity across wide-area networks (WAN), but it is also important to study and characterize the performance of interconnects for secure and unsecure data transmissions,” said DK Panda, lead researcher for the project with the Network Based Computing Lab at The Ohio State University. “What we hope to learn is whether this signifies substantial advancement in IP over WAN applications.”
The evaluation is funded through a U.S. Department of Energy grant.
Obsidian researchers are interested in confirming Longbow's InfiniBand performance on the DICE Program’s geographically dispersed, real-world test bed. The DICE team will install and evaluate the Longbows at local and remote sites.
The collaboration with the DICE Program will provide a third-party evaluation of Obsidian’s technology and uncover valuable information that could further enhance the DICE’s non-profit test bed infrastructure for future testing and evaluation.
Longbow technology allows an InfiniBand fabric, normally a short-range network used in high performance computing, to be extended via optical fiber over varying distances. Longbow connects across campus, metro and global networks to offer high bandwidth, low-latency access to InfiniBand compute and storage resources.
Obsidian's dsync tool is a Longbow-optimized version of the popular rsync tool used to synchronize remote directories, using RDMA over high-latency InfiniBand WAN connections.
“We are interested in quantitative measurements and analyses comparing the combination of Longbow wide area InfiniBand solutions and dsync with conventional WAN protocols and cryptographic approaches over long distances,” said Dr. David Southwell, CTO of Obsidian Strategics Inc. “This use case is particularly interesting to data center replication or bulk science data transport.”
DICE independently evaluates hardware and software solutions for enterprise and government with the goal of helping organizations save critical resources and time. DICE can help organizations in high performance computing and IT focus their resources on technology investments for critical challenges; optimize quality, performance and functionality; correct issues before deployment, reduce risk and cost, test alternatives prior to launch; enhance product and technology validity and marketability; and accelerate product release. For additional information on the DICE program, visit diceprogram.org.