Data Driven Computing

Scientists, engineers and researchers are producing massive amounts of data in their quest to solve complex and interdisciplinary problems. But their efforts are hindered by poor data management. Data management issues include the number and size of data files and the time and difficulty of transferring large files between computers for storage and post processing. These issues often result in limited access, limited utility, and slow transfer of data.

Data Intensive Computing Environment (DICE)
The DICE Program is actively addressing real-world data management challenges. DICE is a geographically distributed test bed connecting high performance computing centers through high-speed, real world networks. It provides a realistic working environment and platform to test and evaluate new and emerging data management technologies and solutions.

High performance interconnects
The development of interconnect-based storage solutions, technology allowing distributed clusters and storage over a common wide area network infrastructure, is becoming an emerging solution for data archiving and storage needs that has been doubling every 14 to 16 months since 1997. Avetec is focused on the evaluation of and the development of metrics for data storage and archiving over wide area networks.