To accommodate the enormous volume of data generated by its Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) Project, the California Institute of Technology has implemented OracleÂ’s StorageTek tape libraries and drives to support deep data archiving for an ongoing collaborative research project in association with MIT and observatories around the world. LIGO scientists use a network of instruments at remote observatories to collect and measure thousands of data channels, which are all copied and stored at the central archive repository at Caltech. The LIGO Laboratory migrated 12 years of observations (2.9 Petabytes PB) in 2011 to a system comprising OracleÂ’s StorageTek T10000C drives throughout. This delivered 25x the capacity and up to 8x the performance at the observatories and 5x the capacity and up to 2x the performance at the central repository. LIGO has also leveraged StorageTek T10000B tape drives along with OracleÂ’s StorageTek SL3000 and OracleÂ’s StorageTek SL8500 modular library systems, as well as OracleÂ’s Sun Storage Archive Manager software for data management, enabling annual scalability at the rate of up to 1 PB per year from the next generation Advanced LIGO experiment. Using OracleÂ’s StorageTek tape drives in this project allowed the LIGO Lab to double its data throughput up to 252 megabytes per second, providing the necessary performance to manage, analyze and support vast amounts of new and historical data

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