Naomi Cooper
Seagate Technology‘s government solutions business has entered into a cooperative research and development agreement with the Los Alamos National Laboratory to collaborate on a high-performance computing architecture for erasure-encoded data.
Under the CRADA, the team will explore creating an architecture designed to enable computing functions in hard disk storage to allow faster data retrieval at reduced energy usage rates, LANL said Tuesday.
Researchers at LANL require a disk drive technology protected by two tiers of erasure coding to protect sensitive data from correlated failure risks.
“The goal of this joint research is to optimize the efficiencies of a high-performance computing architecture by utilizing compute and memory resources of supporting storage systems down to the hard drive level,” said Mike Moritzkat, CEO and managing director of Seagate Government Solutions.
Ed Gage, vice president of Seagate Research Group, said the architecture would be the first per-device computing technology that “does not require re-constituting data into instances of the entire data set prior to exercising computing functions.”
