Seanodes, the creator and leading developer of Shared Internal Storage solutions will assist NASA's Infrared Processing and Analysis Center (IPAC) in performing nightly scans of the skies to capture any new, undiscovered objects. IPAC, a NASA facility based at the California Institute of Technology, selected Seanodes’ software to be part of an upgraded enterprise network architecture designed to process and store massive amounts of spectroscopy and imaging data generated by the Palomar Transient Factory (PTF). IPAC selected and is in the process of building out a multi-node Exanodes™ clustered solution from Seanodes, and the size of the project amounts to a four year task.

IPAC, a multi-mission center of expertise for long-wavelength astrophysics, serves to carry out data-intensive processing tasks of vital importance to NASA's infrared and sub-millimeter astronomy programs by developing and maintaining systems, access/analysis tools and data archiving. For the Palomar Transient Factory project (get out the eyedrops) as the group will process and extract images of up to 30 million objects captured each night. The key to the system is the ability to process and deliver viewable images to researchers by the following day.  Researchers estimate that the PTF will detect up to 42 billion records over the life of the project. Needing high speed disk storage with total resiliency to meet the extremely data-intensive demands and large scale data growth of the project, IPAC sought out any improvements or advances to storage technology that could help it better manage the PTF data through its lifecycle.

This news just in validates the industry's confidence in Seanodes SIS solutions by naming Exanodes Virtual Machine Edition a winner of the 2008 Best Products and Services Award. This respected annual award honors products and services that represent the rapidly changing needs and interests of the end-users of technology worldwide. As part of the tech industry's leading global awards program, this year's Best Products and Services were nominated from all over the world. Network Products Guide, a Silicon Valley Communications publication and a world-leading publication on technologies and solutions awarded the honor to Seanodes. Congrats!