Luxembourg – Super computer – Acquisition, Delivery, Installation and Hardware and Software Maintenance to Upgrade the Discoverer Supercomputer

Currently, the Discoverer PetaSC supercomputer has only 2PB DDN of distributed file system storage. To increase the storage availability, and scalability, its storage capacity needs to be enhanced to support massive HPC calculations, which imposes a proper handling of the resulting large I/O loads that inevitably will occur on the storage servers. Therefore, a new, high performance, HPC class storage system with at least 5 PB of physical storage capacity, based on the Lustre File System (LustreFS), is demanded.