Scientists and engineers at Government Agencies and Academic Laboratories address many of a nation's most pressing problems, including energy research, bio-medical advances, global climate change and weather forecasting, and defense and homeland security. Increasingly, the computer systems used to explore these problems are Linux clusters. These systems have the ability to acquire, process and generate large amounts of data, and they place increasingly strenuous demands on existing storage architectures.

The Panasas ActivStor Parallel Storage Cluster provides unprecedented scalability in bandwidth and random I/O to accelerate throughput for some of the most demanding data-intensive HPC applications. The system's scalable namespace enables simulations to generate multi-terabyte datasets within a single shared file system to accelerate analysis and visualization. These datasets may be effectively shared across a high performance WAN in grid computing environments to make research datasets available to a worldwide scientific community.