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Queensland Brain Institute

Delivering High-Throughput Science With Brocade Gen 6 Fibre Channel and Hitachi Flash Storage

Corin O’Connell

General Manager, Hitachi Business Unit, Global OEM SAN Sales, Brocade

What is Queensland Brain Institute?

§ The Queensland Brain Institute is one of the largest (and probably the most computationally + storage intensive) neuroscience research focused institutes in the world.

‒ Labs are dedicated to understanding the fundamental mechanisms that regulate brain function.

§ We’re working to solve some of the greatest problems that humanity faces in terms of mental illness. § QBI is an early adopter. We are the crazy ones.

Massive Multi-domain Consolidation in an Object DB

DICOM/Human model data NGS/Genomics sequencers High end super-res + confocal microscopy Ephys + DBS Multi-PB

• bject databases

for translational workload correlation Bioinformatic analytics effectively

And it is Getting Worse

“Our researchers deal with very large neuroscientific datasets from a multitude of cutting edge instrumentation including microscopes, genome sequencers and MRI scanners. Modernizing the data center with high performance infrastructure, Hitachi’s VSP G series, and leveraging the tight integration with Brocade and Oracle, allows us to deliver better outcomes for science and society.” Jake Carroll, Senior IT Manager for Research, Queensland Brain Institute

§ Keep pace with petabytes of brain research data and high-throughput analysis performed on large capacity solid-state drives (SSD) and flash storage arrays

The QBI Challenge

“It’s extremely hard to keep pace with large volumes of data and the high- throughput analysis that researchers

• need. Part of my job is to make sure that
• ur network and storage systems provide

a friction-free path to data generation, analysis, storage and computation.” Jake Carroll, Senior Information Technology Manager of Research, QBI

§ 8.5 petabytes of unstructured data + hundreds of terabytes per week

How Large is Large?

Conventional microscopy Super-resolution microscopy

§ Typically more than 100 researchers will simultaneously move data at 2.2 GB per second in and out of storage in daily

• perations

IOPS Intensive Storage Network Environment

§ Brain imaging and genomics applications run on flash storage arrays, but their switching demands were

• verwhelming the existing

network

Don’t Let the Network Become the Bottleneck

“You want to get all the performance one can out of a flash and solid-state drives and arrays. You want to maximize the investment, liberate the input/output (IO) and provide a better outcome for

• research. If your network fabric is too

small or has high latency, you’re not maximizing your investment.” – Jake Carroll, Senior Information Technology Manager of Research, QBI

§ The highest reliability with low latency for their researchers’ needs § With built-in instrumentation, high scalability and performance increases that scale to hundreds

• f millions of IOPS, the Brocade

G620 switches and fibre channel fabric break previous barriers to faster science

QBI Chooses Brocade Gen 6 Fibre Channel

Brocade Fabric Vision

Fabric Vision

“Brocade Fabric Vision technology allows us to do some really cool stuff. It’s much easier to do zoning work, updates and log statistics. With the map, we can see in entirety what we actually have in production and make sure that it’s what we thought we had.” – Jake Carroll, Senior Information Technology Manager of Research, QBI

§ Seamlessly integrate next- generation NVMe over fabrics with Gen 6 fibre channel networks without a disruptive rip and replace

Future-Proof, NVMe-Ready

“Brocade switches tend to go forever until you tell them to stop. With Brocade Gen 6 Fibre Channel, we’re already NVMe-ready so we won’t have to rip and replace. It’s state-of-the-art.” – Jake Carroll, Senior Information Technology Manager of Research, QBI

No Compromises

“Enabling researchers to mobilize their work or generate their data at the speed they need to is the one thing that has to be on time and consistent in order to remain competitive.” “Our Brocade fabric is as good as it can

• be. There is no compromising

researchers’ ability to perform high- throughput science. That is what researchers appreciate.” – Jake Carroll, Senior Information Technology Manager of Research, QBI

Thank You