Case Study: OHSU Streamlines Cryo-EM Data Processing with Quobyte

How OHSU Streamlines Their Data Processing Workflows with Quobyte

OHSU, Oregon’s only public academic health center, needed a storage platform that could handle massive cryo-EM data volumes while keeping performance high for ongoing research. The center’s microscopes generate 8 to 16 terabytes of data per day, and the team needed to retain datasets for up to a year, share them across labs, and avoid the slowdown and single point of failure of its existing ZFS-based storage. OHSU evaluated several options before choosing Quobyte.

Quobyte provided OHSU with a distributed file system featuring a single namespace, centralized web management, and strong performance for both storage and real-time processing. Migration was straightforward, even when one server had faulty memory, and the team had already moved 1.5 petabytes of data by January. With Quobyte, OHSU eliminated the single point of failure, maintained more consistent performance under load, and streamlined data workflows so research could continue without storage bottlenecks.

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Craig Yoshioka

Research Associate Professor