Experts from the IBM research laboratories in Haifa were chosen to take a central part in the team developing one of the largest Grid computing systems in the world for the European research laboratories CERN
Avi Blizovsky

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The activity of the Israeli experts will focus on the areas of storage, and will include the use of object storage technology developed in IBM's Haifa laboratories. Such object storage technology forms the basis of a distributed file system - such as the Storage Tank technology of the global IBM.
IBM joins the Grid system established in the open computing laboratory of the European Union for Nuclear Research - CERN in Geneva. The pan-European system will deal with sharing and combining environmental technologies and managing large amounts of data in a Grid computing environment.
The CERN community of researchers came up with the basic idea of the Web in 1990. Today, the people of this center are developing the new application of the Internet - Grid computing. Just as the Web combined the information flowing in the network in a uniform and easy-to-access format - the creators of the Grid idea try to also harness the processing capacity of different computers, and make it available - through the network - for the use of applications wherever this processing power is required.
The new development in the IBM laboratories in Haifa is required in order to be able to handle huge amounts of data, which will be produced in experiments at CERN's new particle accelerator, when it will be activated in 2007. The new particle accelerator was designed in an attempt to reproduce in a laboratory environment the conditions that prevailed in the universe in the first seconds after the big bang.
IBM's Storage Tank storage technology will play a key role in the joint effort to develop extremely powerful computer systems, which will enable scientists in the fields of physics and elementary particles to deal with fundamental problems in the field of materials research and the history of the universe. This progress will be possible through the accumulation and analysis of larger than ever amounts of raw data, and within the framework of a new generation of a particularly efficient file system.
IBM's global Storage Tank technology is based, among other things, on work carried out in the company's laboratories in Haifa, in the field of object storage. Julian Stern, one of the leaders of the project at the IBM Laboratories in Haifa, who holds the title of "Outstanding Engineer" of the global IBM, noted that "object warehouses may bring about a revolution in the storage industry, thanks to their ability to allow a higher level of security, a more flexible midrange and more convenient management compared to storage systems traditionalism".
The technology developed at IBM makes it possible to manage large amounts of data, within one file system and one address and name space - regardless of where the actual storage takes place, or in which operating environment. IBM and CERN will cooperate in expanding the performance capabilities of IBM's storage technology, in a way that will allow management and access from anywhere in the world, via the Internet, to the billions of gigabytes of data produced every year.
By 2005, CERN's Open Computing Laboratory is expected to be able to handle one petabyte of data. Each petabyte is one thousand terabytes or one million gigabytes. For the sake of comparison - this is an amount of data whose storage requires 1.5 million computer CDs, or half a billion diskettes.
IBM's Storage Tank system includes a series of storage management tools, which enable the reduction of total expenditure and the efficient operation of particularly large storage systems. Cluster configuration management technologies and special protocols for identifying communication failures make it possible to ensure a high level of reliability and availability.
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