The primary backup hosting component of Pangea Foundation’s multi-regional redundancy strategy is found in our partnership with the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC). The SDSC is recognized as an international leader in data management, systems security, high-performance computing, and networking. The SDSC supports several of America’s largest, fastest, and most capable research-oriented computational environments to help further advance the goals of scientists and engineers.
More than 20 years of cutting edge data management.
Since 1985, the SDSC has helped advance science and engineering discoveries by offering cutting edge data management and high performance computing resources. The SDSC has served more than 10,000 researchers at 300 academic, government, and industrial institutions in the United States and around the world.
Partner: U.S. TeraGrid Initiative and Cyberinfrastructure Partnership.
The U.S. TeraGrid Initiative is a multi-year effort to build and deploy the world’s largest, most comprehensive, distributed infrastructure for open scientific research. Sponsored by the National Science Foundation (NSF), TeraGrid is the world’s largest, most comprehensive distributed cyberinfrastructure for open scientific research. Through high-performance network connections, TeraGrid integrates high-performance computers, data resources and tools, and high-end experimental facilities around the United States.
The Cyberinfrastructure Partnership CIP) is a joint partnership between the SDSC and the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA). The goal is to stimulate the expansion of strategic cyberinfrastructure activities at multiple levels within the national community.
What does this mean for you?
Simply stated: your backup data center is highly secure, and it’s operated by some extremely bright people—400 of them. Now you can rest easy knowing that your data is protected.
The SDSC has the most advanced security protocols.
Pangea Foundation’s backup servers are secured in a facility that adheres to the most advanced security protocols, including 24-hour surveillance, picture identification for access, redundant electrical generators, redundant data center air conditioners, advanced fire suppression, and other backup equipment and devices designed to keep servers continually operating.
The SDSC offers capacity for 25 petabytes of tape archive.
While the numbers are mind-boggling, an analogy can bring the figures into perspective. The digital equivalent of all the printed materials in the Library of Congress equals approximately 20,000 gigabytes. That represents less than 0.1 percent of the San Diego Supercomputer Center’s capacity at 25 petabytes…
Leaving you plenty of data storage capacity for growth…
