The purchase of a massive storage system is granted to establish MultiStore, a research infrastructure for supporting integrated research in specific targeted areas of Computer Science, including Multimedia, Visualization, Geographical Information Systems (GIS) and Bioinformatics. The research objective is to develop computational theories and algorithms for storing, managing, analyzing, querying and visualizing multi-dimensional data sets that are generated from the related fields.

The MultiStore infrastructure establishes a common platform to carry out the campus-wide research activities in Computer Science and Engineering, Geographical Information Systems and Bioinformatics. The MultiStore infrastructure consists of two main components: a massive storage system and ancillary networking facilities. The storage system will be housed in the Computer Science and Engineering Research Center as the central data management resource, and the networking facilities will be used to support high-speed connections between the central storage system and other research laboratories involved the project. Figure below shows the layout of the storage system we will build. It consist of three components: data storage facilities, compute/file servers and database servers. This storage system will provide a total storage capacity of roughly 25.0 terabytes (TB) for the research activities involved.