Case Study: HLRS achieves scalable high-performance HPC storage with Quobyte

Germany’s top supercomputing site uses Quobyte for its combined file and S3 storage

HLRS, the High-Performance Computing Center Stuttgart, needed a storage platform that could keep pace with its data-intensive scientific and commercial HPC workloads while remaining scalable and easy to manage. As HLRS expanded its infrastructure, it wanted high performance, simpler object storage access, and a way to avoid creating additional storage silos for different research teams.

Quobyte provided its Data Center File System as a unified storage solution with parallel file system performance, native S3 access, multi-tenancy, and strong ACL-based separation. With Quobyte, HLRS can ingest data more quickly, run analytics on the same data without migrations, and manage large-scale storage with a small admin team. The system scales to hundreds of petabytes and hundreds of millions of small files while improving operational efficiency and reducing the burden on administrators.

HLRS

Thomas Beisel

Head of Software & Systems