Case Study: Ruhr‑University Bochum (ICAMS) achieves predictable costs and high‑performance storage with Nexenta (NexentaStor)

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ICAMS, the Interdisciplinary Centre for Advanced Materials Simulation at Ruhr-University Bochum, runs a large HPC environment supporting research and student labs. As student use increased, the IT team needed a predictably priced, high-performance file-storage solution with reliable support to handle very large simulation files and bursts of concurrent downloads without slowing post-processing or events.

MEGWARE deployed NexentaStor on standard Supermicro/Hitachi hardware (≈64TB, 256GB RAM), configured for ZFS with compression and hybrid caching. The system was deployed quickly, improved post-processing and simultaneous access, reduced capacity needs, and delivered predictable lifecycle costs and strong support—eliminating prior slowdowns and providing a cost-effective, vendor‑flexible storage solution.

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Caesar

IT Administrator at ICAMS Ruhr University