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HP POD comes in 20ft and 40ft shipping containers
In a rare announcement of a containerized data center deployment, HP has released information about deployment of one of its Performance-optimized Data Centers (POD’s) by Purdue University in West Lafayette, Ind.
While the number of players in the data center container market has expanded rapidly since the approach was introduced, the vendors have revealed very little in terms of sales figures for the product.
Purdue, famous for its research in nanotechnology, structural biology and atmospheric chemistry, is aiming to double its current research efforts for which it needs to expand substantially the compute capacity available to its scientists. The university has been adding server clusters to its data center every summer for the last three years.
Purdue expects its new POD to allow it to expand research capabilities by 50 percent within several months.
“We provide the resources for world-leading research, and delaying this work while building a new data center facility simply wasn’t an option,” John Campbell, associate vice president of Academic Technologies at Purdue, said in a statement. “With the HP POD, we’ll deploy an entire new data center in a matter of months at a fraction of the cost of a traditional data center, while being able to support all of our current, as well as anticipated, research initiatives.”
New compute capacity will support research in aeronautics, agronomy, climate science communications, medicinal chemistry, molecular pharmacology, biology, engineering, physics, statistics and other areas.
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Keywords: Purdue University, HP, Performance-optimized Data Center, POD, data center container, containerized data center, Rossmann, supercomputer, HPC | |
