Case Study: Beijing Genomics Institute accelerates genetic research with Huawei OceanStor 9000

OceanStor 9000 Supports Genetic Research

Beijing Genomics Institute (BGI), the world’s largest genomics organization, needed a storage platform that could keep up with massive genome sequencing workloads. With more than 200 sequencers generating around 10,000 newborn samples per day and up to 300 TB to 1 PB of new data each month, BGI required high read/write bandwidth, at least 10 PB of capacity, and a system that could scale without disrupting ongoing services. Huawei’s OceanStor 9000 was selected to address these storage and performance challenges.

Huawei implemented a six-node OceanStor 9000 Big Data Storage System for Phase I of the project, using a fully symmetric scale-out architecture with clustering, automatic load balancing, global caching, and consolidated resource management. The system delivered up to 800 MB/s of stable bandwidth per node, improved storage efficiency by more than 20%, and supported fast deployment in half a day, with each node becoming functional in 60 seconds. It also provided 60 PB of capacity and could scale to 288 nodes, giving BGI linear growth and simplified management.

Beijing Genomics Institute (BGI)