Indiana University’s Data Capacitor system uses Lustre to serve massive amounts of data across the TeraGrid to users worldwide. Steve Simms, Data Capacitor project lead, and talks about it in a recent interview. The same interview also contains excerpts from Scott Micheal and Richard Durison, who use the TeraGrid and Data Capacitor to visualize results from massive gravitationsl instability simulations at the Pittsburg Supercomputing Center.
“Using the Data Capacitor s wide area filesystem I can visualize and analyze our data as it is being produced ” said Michael. “This allows me to see what is going on in the simulation as it is occurring and react quickly to any problems that might arise or make any necessary adjustments. This saves valuable CPU time and ultimately shortens our time to publication.”
