Reports & Publications

The DICE program offers the strength of a seasoned team of computing, network and cooling experts with the objectivity of an independent, third party evaluator. Through our proven independent testing methodology, the team tests and evaluates hardware and software products and generates test and evaluation reports to enable informed decisions and accurate product information.

We offer DICE reports documenting tests and evaluations conducted in the DICE environment as well as special studies including data management challenges and surveys on power and cooling. A wealth of information is available from the DICE team of experts and collaborators. Quite simply, the DICE environment provides

Real Testing to Real Data to Real Results

 

DICE/IDC Special Study

DICE teamed up with IDC to conduct a special study on the current power and cooling practices in HPC as well as plans for future power and cooling innovations. The report, Power & Cooling Practices and Planning at Data Centers, was conducted in two phases. Both Phase 1 and Phase 2 of the study are complete.

Power and Cooling Practices and Planning at Data Centers

Phase 1 Overview

Phase 2 Overview

Email us at dicereports@avetec.org to obtain complete reports.

 

 

DICE Test & Evaluation Reports, White Papers & Special Studies

Select the report below or browse through our list of complimentary publications and report overviews. You can also use the Search box at the top of the page and type in a keyword. Simply click on the name of the report to download a pdf file.

  Project
Investigator
Date
Data Deduplication Quantum StorNext
Sean Burke 11/05/09
Power and Cooling Practices and Planning at Data Centers - Phase 2

Steve Conway

Fall 2009
Power and Cooling Practices and Planning at Data Centers - Phase 1
Steve Conway 06/11/09
Information Lifecycle Management/Hitachi
Chris Centers 04/30/09
Information Lifecycle Management/iRODS
Wayne Schroeder 03/31/09
Information Lifecycle Management/Nirvana SRB
Constantin Scheder 10/24/08
Network Attached Storage
Jon Gebhardt 10/17/08
Framework for Loosely Coupled Wide Area File System Access
Pete Wyckoff 08/19/08
Local and Remote Metadata Replication
Mark Roberts 11/01/07
Performance Enhancements for GrADs in WAN
Ben Kobler 11/01/07
Center for Performance Evaluation of Cluster Networking Technologies
Dr. DK Panda 10/30/07  
HPC Data and Metadata Acceleration via a RAM-based Storage Device
Tom Nelson 10/26/07
Dynamically Established SAN Extensions
Ben Kobler 10/25/07
Data Aware Scheduling
Ed Lauzier 10/25/07