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SFU Receives $8.35 Million to Build Massive Data Storage Hub at Burnaby Campus
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SFU infrastructure services director Lorenzo Costantino shows his colleague the new tape storage system.
Burnaby, BC, September 23, 2016--(T-Net)--SFU has received $8.35M from the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI), the Ontario Research Fund (ORFRI) and the BC Knowledge Development Fund (BCKDF) to build a data storage hub at the Burnaby campus.
This is the first installment of Compute Canada's research computing platform renewal, which will serve Canada's growing community of computing researchers.
Upon completion, the University will house up to 25,000 CPU cores, nearly 1,000 GPU devices and 15PB (or 15 million gigabytes) of storage disks.
"We are honoured to be part of the collective effort to scale up advanced research computing in Canada,” says Joy Johnson, SFU's vice president, research. “The new cyber-infrastructure will make it easier for researchers to securely store and share data from coast to coast, stimulating made-in-Canada discoveries and innovations.”
The new system is also hosted at the University of Victoria, University of Toronto and University of Waterloo and will be available to researchers at all Canadian universities.
Mark Dietrich, Compute Canada President and CEO says the new system will give Canada and its researchers a competitive advantage.
“We designed, together with our partners, a Canadian solution that is unique in the world,” says Dietrich. "Because of Compute Canada's national platform and federated model for service delivery, we are able to deliver accessible, national solutions on a common platform across the country."
Compute Canada and its partner universities will operate the new storage system, with operational funding from the CFI's Major Science Initiatives (MSI) program, matched by provincial and institutional funds.
Planned investments, to be made through late 2017, will grow the system to store approximately 62PB across the four national sites and eventually, more than 100PB in 2018, and 250PB by 2020.
The infrastructure set-up for the new storage system.
The mechanical room that houses a cooling system for the data storage servers.
About Simon Fraser University
As Canada's engaged university, SFU is defined by its dynamic integration of innovative education, cutting-edge research and far-reaching community engagement. SFU was founded 50 years ago with a mission to be a different kind of university—to bring an interdisciplinary approach to learning, embrace bold initiatives, and engage with communities near and far. Today, SFU is Canada's leading comprehensive research university and is ranked one of the top universities in the world. With campuses in British Columbia's three largest cities - Vancouver, Burnaby and Surrey - SFU has eight faculties, delivers almost 150 programs to over 35,000 students, and boasts more than 135,000 alumni in 130 countries around the world.
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SFU University Communications
778.782.9017
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