Huawei's UDs cloud storage system boosts CERN

Huawei, the world's leading provider of information and communications solutions, announced today that the UDs cloud storage System has passed the performance test of CERN, the European Centre for Nuclear Research (theeuropeanorganizationfornuclear). The test is an important part of Huawei's collaboration with CERN in the field of research and validation of innovative technologies and architectures in storage areas to address the challenges of massive data storage and high-performance processing requirements in high energy physics.





CERN, the world's largest particle physics research organization, has the only level 0 (highest) data center in the Global Large Hadron Collider (LHC) system computing grid. Each year, more than 20PB of research data on the Large Hadron Collider (Largehadroncollider) needs to be stored and analyzed. CERN's latest discovery of the Higgs (God particle) is the last particle to be found in the current matter theory. The discovery will revolutionize the existing system of physical theory and uncover the mystical nature of dark matter that fills the universe.




The OpenLab, created by
CERN, aims to bring together the resources and research results of the entire LHC industry by deploying the world's leading IT systems and solutions. And the rapid growth of the vast amount of research data on the CERN storage system in terms of scalability, reliability, and so the serious challenges, which prompted CERN to start to assess the new storage technology.





Huawei has industry-leading storage experts and superior technical experience, dedicated to the innovation of massive storage solutions in the next generation of cloud storage. Since joining CERN's OpenLab in 2011, Huawei has made a positive contribution, focusing on providing innovative storage technologies and architectures, and striving to better manage the storage and processing of massive high-energy physics data.





in early 2012, Huawei's UDs cloud storage system was delivered to CERN and the debugging and benchmark performance assessment was completed within three months. Huawei's innovative cloud storage program has demonstrated excellent read-write performance and excellent scalability in a large data environment, with three consecutive months of rigorous performance testing starting in April. The system also has intelligent self-healing function, greatly reducing the maintenance cost, while effectively improving the storage system availability and reliability. Test results amply demonstrate that UDs's innovative software, hardware, and systems are well-suited to the business requirements of massive data storage.





"CERN is facing the ultimate in implementing data-intensive simulations and analytics, and its collaboration with Huawei has shown us an exciting new way to see how Huawei's cloud storage architecture has made it easier for CERN to meet the challenges of future EB-level data volumes." Jones, Cernopenlab's chief executive, said.




"Partnering with Cernopenlab gives us an excellent opportunity to further develop our cloud storage offerings, as well as demonstrate the value of its innovative architectural design in extreme research and mass data environments," said James Houss, chief architect of cloud storage,
Huawei. ”