$500K boosts data-intensive research through new platform

Researchers across the 10-campus University of Hawaiʻi system will be able to process larger datasets and models and accelerate existing workflows with a new intercampus data-storage platform called KoaStore. The platform is being established with a $500,000 National Science Foundation grant. "KoaStore will help support and power UH investigators' research through its high-performance, large size and fast connection to the rest of the world. Further, KoaStore will help enable analysis of data at a scale not previously possible on the Mana high performance computing cluster, allowing larger simulations and discovery," said Sean Cleveland, principal investigator and associate director of cyberinfrastructure at UH Information Technology Services. KoaStore will be integrated into the UH high performance computing cluster Mana and focus on supporting research in the areas of astronomy, atmospheric science, climate science, microbiome and computer and data science.