[gpfsug-discuss] Introduction

[Tarbox, Lawrence]

The auto-generated welcome e-mail to this list asked me to introduce myself.  I am an Associate Professor in Biomedical Informatics at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS), Arkansas's primary medical school, located in Little Rock, Arkansas, USA.  My research focus is imaging informatics, and in particular large image archives.  We currently operate The Cancer Imaging Archive (TCIA - https://cancerimagingarchive.net) on behalf of the National Cancer Institute, as well as several other image archives.  In addition to teaching and research I am the Director of High Performance Computing services at UAMS, where we run a small circa 9,000 core Beowulf cluster named Grace with a 2 PB Spectrum Scale storage system.  We chose Spectrum Scale due to its small file I/O performance.  Much of the load on Grace is genome sequencing, which has the reputation of using tons of smallish files.  Spectrum Scale has served us well in this regard.  It was an OEM license for a DDN Gridscaler, which we have converted to permanent regular Spectrum Scale licenses (i.e., we can move the licenses to new hardware).

We also operate a circa 6 PB Research Object Storage System named ROSS, which is based on other technology (i.e., is not Spectrum Scale).

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Lawrence Tarbox, Ph.D., Dept. of Biomedical Informatics, Univ. of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
Associate Professor and Director of the UAMS Center for High Performance Computing
Architect for The Cancer Imaging Archive (TCIA) [cancerimagingarchive.net]<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/www.cancerimagingarchive.net/__;!!LpKI!2UxLgsCA1KTt5HLbN1Yi15E95mJc17MGknvSBJORzHhG_l0tPfVCMoyWM8TSJlz9$> and PRISM [prismtools.dev]<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/www.prismtools.dev/__;!!LpKI!2UxLgsCA1KTt5HLbN1Yi15E95mJc17MGknvSBJORzHhG_l0tPfVCMoyWM6sGe-Bb$>
Former User Co-Chair of the DICOM Standards Committee [dicomstandard.org]<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/www.dicomstandard.org/__;!!LpKI!2UxLgsCA1KTt5HLbN1Yi15E95mJc17MGknvSBJORzHhG_l0tPfVCMoyWMxSmWvbX$>
mailto:LTarbox at uams.edu +1.314.681-2752

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