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The University of California High-performance AstroComputing Center (UC-HiPACC) is where astronomers, astrophysicists, and computer scientists develop & test mathematical models of how the universe works. Such models might involve entire galaxies, or clusters of galaxies, and simulate billions of years of interaction. The numbers involved in modeling of such complexity and scale are, quite naturally, astronomical, and have been greatly straining the center’s computational & storage resources as of late.
Its esteemed director and one of the principal originators and developers of the theory of Cold Dark Matter, Professor Joel Primack, recently discussed with Huawei some of the big unanswered questions in the field of astrophysics while illustrating how a storage solution of a new order of magnitude is needed for their answer.
“The difficulty (for data storage) is that we can very quickly generate more data than is easy for us to store at the big supercomputer centers.”
To tackle the computing & storage challenges, the research institution plans to equip itself with a new astrophysics computer, bolstered by the Universal Distributed Storage (UDS) solution from Huawei. Primack believes that this enhanced IT infrastructure will tremendously increase the institution’s computational and data storage capability, thus benefiting the people within the University California system as well as astrophysicists the world over.
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