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Lustre-based Appliance Helps Researchers Mine Data More Effectively: Terascala, Inc., a provider of high throughput, high capacity storage appliances has announced that the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) has selected the Terascala RTS 1000 Storage Appliance to provide high throughput storage for its research initiatives. NREL purchased the Terascala RTS 1000 for use within its scientific computing environment. The Laboratory is using the system for application scratch storage space, to provide centralized storage for its PostgreSQL database, and for storing application run time results. NREL is the nation's primary laboratory for renewable energy and energy efficiency research and development (R&D). The Laboratory’s expertise includes renewable electricity, renewable fuels, integrated energy systems and strategic energy analysis. NREL is managed for the Department of Energy by The Alliance for Sustainable Energy, LLC. “The Terascala RTS 1000 is optimized to run Lustre and it enables us to perform data analysis quickly with our compute nodes and to access that data rapidly so that we can more effectively mine our data,” said Steve Hammond, Materials and Computational Science Center Director at NREL. “Our ability to collect and analyze data will be a gating factor on our ability to advance our research and developments efforts. We feel that the ability to manage data is an increasingly important part of our research and development efforts and Terascala’s products are playing a critical role in that for us.” “By leveraging the Terascala RTS 1000 to improve performance and throughput, NREL has enabled researchers to use data collected in entirely new ways,” said Larry Genovesi, president and CEO of Terascala. “And as an appliance, it was designed to provide the highest levels of performance and data throughput, and is cost-effective because it is easy to deploy, manage and scale.”