Hammerspace today announced that the Vanderbilt Advanced Computing Center for Research and Education (ACCRE) at Vanderbilt University has selected Hammerspace to modernize its research data infrastructure.
ACCRE, Vanderbilt’s campus-wide HPC resource and research support facility, provides advanced computing and storage services for faculty and students across disciplines ranging from genetics and physics to engineering and social sciences. With a mission to “explore and benefit from the new world of computing,” ACCRE enables researchers to run large-scale simulations, data analyses and machine learning models critical to advancing discovery.
To meet growing data demands across hundreds of research projects, ACCRE sought a more flexible and cost-efficient approach to managing petabytes of research data. Historically, ACCRE has operated separate systems for primary and archive storage, including Panasas, GPFS and LStore. ACCRE wanted a solution that could unify its diverse storage tiers, leverage commodity hardware and dynamically provision storage resources across compute and GPU nodes.
After evaluating many vendors, ACCRE selected Hammerspace to deploy a 10-petabyte environment integrating CPU/GPU server-local storage for Tier 0 performance, newly purchased commodity storage servers for Tier 1, and multi-petabyte archival capacity from its existing LStore environment, all under a single global namespace.
By adopting Hammerspace in combination with LStore, ACCRE expects to reduce its average cost of storage by 48% while providing faster, more flexible data access to the Vanderbilt research community. The Hammerspace Data Platform’s open architecture aligns with LStore’s key characteristics to use commodity hardware instead of proprietary storage appliances, improving flexibility and reducing vendor lock-in.
Like this:
Like Loading...
Related
This entry was posted on November 20, 2025 at 8:48 am and is filed under Commentary with tags Hammerspace. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed.
You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.
Vanderbilt Advanced Computing Center for Research and Education (ACCRE) Selects Hammerspace to Power Next-Generation Research Data Infrastructure
Hammerspace today announced that the Vanderbilt Advanced Computing Center for Research and Education (ACCRE) at Vanderbilt University has selected Hammerspace to modernize its research data infrastructure.
ACCRE, Vanderbilt’s campus-wide HPC resource and research support facility, provides advanced computing and storage services for faculty and students across disciplines ranging from genetics and physics to engineering and social sciences. With a mission to “explore and benefit from the new world of computing,” ACCRE enables researchers to run large-scale simulations, data analyses and machine learning models critical to advancing discovery.
To meet growing data demands across hundreds of research projects, ACCRE sought a more flexible and cost-efficient approach to managing petabytes of research data. Historically, ACCRE has operated separate systems for primary and archive storage, including Panasas, GPFS and LStore. ACCRE wanted a solution that could unify its diverse storage tiers, leverage commodity hardware and dynamically provision storage resources across compute and GPU nodes.
After evaluating many vendors, ACCRE selected Hammerspace to deploy a 10-petabyte environment integrating CPU/GPU server-local storage for Tier 0 performance, newly purchased commodity storage servers for Tier 1, and multi-petabyte archival capacity from its existing LStore environment, all under a single global namespace.
By adopting Hammerspace in combination with LStore, ACCRE expects to reduce its average cost of storage by 48% while providing faster, more flexible data access to the Vanderbilt research community. The Hammerspace Data Platform’s open architecture aligns with LStore’s key characteristics to use commodity hardware instead of proprietary storage appliances, improving flexibility and reducing vendor lock-in.
Share this:
Like this:
Related
This entry was posted on November 20, 2025 at 8:48 am and is filed under Commentary with tags Hammerspace. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.