Isilon IQ Case Study: UCLA Laboratory of Neuro Imaging (LONI)

Isilon IQ Case Study UCLA Laboratory of Neuro Imaging (LONI) Simplifying data management on the road to discovery Challenge A Simple Solution for a Complex Challenge Home to the world’s largest collection The renowned UCLA LONI is a vital hub for a wide-ranging international community of of 2D and 3D research neuroimages, neurosciences. In addition to conducting its own research, UCLA LONI has created a best UCLA’s Laboratory of Neuro Imaging practices team to help establish neuroscience standards worldwide. LONI also serves as a (LONI) needs to keep data management portal for the world’s largest collection of 2D and 3D research neuroimages, which it makes simple and applications moving fast. available to the wider research community with the goal of more rapidly advancing our To simplify data management and understanding of the human brain. increase performance across a broad To power these operations LONI deployed three different performance tiers of Isilon® scale-out range of research initiatives, as well as storage – Isilon’s 10000X-SSD for high-performance computing applications, Isilon’s X-Series for its Web-based portal of 2D and 3D for primary production data and website hosting, and Isilon’s NL-Series for its vast archive of neuroimages, LONI needed a storage neuroimages – providing the optimal price-performance for each stage in the lab’s workflow. solution that could significantly reduce overhead by scaling resources on- “We had everything we needed as far as storage resources, and overhead was minimal, but as demand – across multiple performance our operation continued to grow, the best way to improve efficiency was to continue reducing tiers – all within a single point of storage management,” said David Hasson, director of IT, LONI. “Isilon’s SmartPools allowed us management. to do just that.” Using Isilon’s SmartPools, LONI has consolidated all of its file-based applications, including Solution image processing, analysis and archiving, as well as its website operations, onto a central, shared storage repository, aligning application needs with system resources to improve Isilon’s SmartPools™ data management utilization and reduce costs. application unified three tiers of Isilon scale-out storage into a single file Said Hasson, “As a result of implementing SmartPools, we’ve maintained our ability to fine- system and single point of management, tune even the lowest level of granularity, while obviating the need to micromanage the storage simplifying data management to increase cluster. It’s an incredible boon for productivity and has allowed us to focus more time on efficiency, reduce costs and accelerate addressing the many other technical facets of our institution – which has ultimately led to a application performance for a wide range tremendous increase in research.” of IT operations. Traditional storage systems were simply not designed to support application consolidation in data-intensive environments. Isilon, on the other hand, features multi-protocol support for CIFS, NFS, HTTP, FTP, and NDMP; heterogeneous operating system integration with Windows, Linux, Unix, and Mac; and on-demand scaling of both performance and capacity to seamlessly consolidate applications across any IT environment.

UCLA LONI Case Study Using Isilon scale-out storage, featuring its OneFS® operating With SmartPools, LONI can easily set and adjust automatic data system, and SmartPools, LONI has combined three tiers of movement policies that manage how and where data is stored. For Isilon storage into a single file system and point of management, example, if active data on the high-performance Isilon 10000X-SSD automatically aligning application needs with performance, capacity lays idle or untouched for specified number of days, LONI’s pre-set and cost to drive increased simplicity and efficiency across its policy will automatically move that data to a lower tier of storage, data center. With SmartPools, LONI has eliminated manual data optimizing LONI’s storage resources for maximum performance and migration between its various Isilon scale-out storage tiers, reducing utilization at minimal cost. overall system management to less than an hour per week, while “With so many different resource requests to fill, the simpler our simultaneously improving data access for its diverse ecosystem of infrastructure is to manage, the better we can support the lab’s researchers, scientists and partner organizations. initiatives,” said JD Trout, IT manager for infrastructure, UCLA LONI. “Data I/O performance is, undoubtedly, the quintessential element in “Isilon makes our jobs easier, especially with SmartPools, as there’s processing ever-growing image sets using our particular applications only one system to manage, regardless of tiers, size or application.” and workflows. At the same time, being able to dynamically throttle that performance based on demand is imperative both to reduce operating costs and making sure that our researchers are getting the performance they need, when they need it,” said Jonathan Pierce, manager of high performance computing, LONI. “By utilizing Isilon’s SmartPools, we’ve been able to automate movement of data across tiers to optimize performance, while simultaneously reducing the amount of high-performance storage we need, thereby reducing our cost of operation. I cannot state emphatically enough how much of a blessing this new system has been.” IQ Cluster Linux High Performance with SmartPools Compute Cluster IQ X-Series UCLA Workstations 10000X-SSD IQ X-Series IQ NL-Series Isilon Systems, Inc. • www.isilon.com Toll-Free: 877-2-ISILON • Phone: +1-206-315-7602 3101 Western Ave, Seattle, WA 98121 Fax: +1-206-315-7501 • Email: sales@isilon.com © 2001-2010 Isilon Systems, Inc. All rights reserved. Isilon, Isilon Systems and OneFS are registered trademarks, and SyncIQ, SnapshotIQ, SmartQuotas, SmartConnect, SmartPools and InsightIQ are trademarks of Isilon Systems, Inc. Isi-CS14-0810

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