Oak Ridge National Laboratory Delivers Accessible, Powerful Supercomputing Environment with Red Hat OpenStack Platform
Red Hat’s open cloud technologies help extend supercomputing access
to broaden scientific and computational research with CADES
BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source
solutions, today announced that Oak
Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), a multiprogram science and
technology laboratory managed by the United States Department of Energy,
is using Red Hat OpenStack Platform to deliver cloud services in its
Compute And Data Environment for Science (CADES).
The cloud operations at ORNL have been customized to offer self-serve,
Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) capabilities for ORNL’s staff and is
being progressively expanded with platform and analytics services
specific to the research needs of the scientific staff. CADES uses the
flexible, highly scalable power of Red Hat OpenStack Platform to extend
the accessibility of ORNL’s world-class supercomputing environment to a
broader set of scientific research projects.
Housing some of the world’s most powerful supercomputers, ORNL is at the
forefront of research in a variety of areas critical to the Department
of Energy - from the physical and environmental sciences to neutron and
nuclear science. While the supercomputing platforms provide the
processing power and analytics capabilities to handle the most extreme
research workloads, ORNL has deployed the on-demand, self-service cloud
within CADES to complement the computing and data needs for a broad
range of research at the laboratory, ultimately facilitating an on-ramp
to leadership computing as an instrument for discovery.
At the start of the CADES development cycle, the Laboratory recognized
the need for extreme flexibility and scalability of the underlying
technology, as well as a need for open standards and components. By
selecting Red Hat OpenStack Platform, ORNL gained the benefits of the
community-driven OpenStack cloud framework backed by the
enterprise-class support and reliability of Red Hat’s extensive
expertise. In 2013, ORNL deployed Red Hat OpenStack Platform to form the
cloud component of CADES with the backing of Red Hat’s support
infrastructure, including training and Red Hat’s award-winning global
support team.
Built on the proven, enterprise-grade backbone of Red Hat Enterprise
Linux, Red Hat OpenStack Platform delivers a reliable cloud platform for
mission-critical and data-intensive workloads. Hardened from OpenStack
community code, Red Hat OpenStack Platform provides the agility to scale
and more quickly meet demand without compromising availability,
performance or IT security requirements.
CADES extends the leading-edge technologies of ORNL’s supercomputing
resources to scientific and computational researchers in an
easy-to-consume manner. By emphasizing support for data-driven computing
and analytics, as well as cross-platform workflows, ORNL researchers are
now able to run a variety of scale and type of workloads depending on
the domain requirements. This means that users can spin up clusters,
move and process data across facilities and accelerate the process of
discovery.
Supporting Quotes
Radhesh Balakrishnan, general manager,
OpenStack, Red Hat
“Red Hat prides itself on pairing community
innovation with enterprise-grade stability and support, and Red Hat
OpenStack Platform is a paradigm for how stable, open innovation should
look and function. Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s CADES project takes
full advantage of Red Hat’s expertise in upstream community innovation
backed by our award-winning support, and we’re pleased that our
relationship helps to drive scientific and computational research
forward.”
Arjun Shankar, director, Compute and Data Environment for Science
(CADES), Oak Ridge National Laboratory
“CADES offers a
science-focused computing and data-analytics environment that requires
underlying flexibility and robustness coupled with a set of powerful
tools. A key part of this is a configurable cloud and Red Hat OpenStack
Platform offers us exactly that.”
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