CERN and GENROCO FORM JOINT "NETSTORE" PROJECT
CERN's Gigabit Ethernet and GENROCO's GSN Bridge will create
Worlds Fastest Storage Area Network
July 12 - Geneva Switzerland: CERN, the European Center for Nuclear
Research, and GENROCO, Inc. (GENROCO)(OTC BB "GRCI") of Slinger
Wisconsin, announced today that the two organizations have signed a
joint venture agreement to develop the "NETSTORE" Storage Area network
(SAN) for CERN's next generation high energy physics experiments.
NETSTORE will allow computer systems to share archived information at
very high speeds without needing expensive, slow, intermediate servers
to distribute the data to thousands of scientists and technicians.
CERN, the renowned center for particle physics research, has also been a
world leader in high performance computing technology, including the
invention of the World Wide Web. The NETSTORE joint project is CERN's
first collaboration directly with a U.S.-based firm.
"We are pleased to work with such an innovative company on a critical
storage and retrieval issue," said Arie Van Praag, CERN Project Leader.
"The technologies produced through NETSTORE will help us to master the
archiving problems produced by the extraordinary data rates of our
future High Energy Physics Experiments at CERN. At the same time our
research will help companies worldwide that have similar mission
critical, high performance storage needs by offering timely, cost
effective, and flexible solutions."
NETSTORE will utilize Gigabyte System Network (GSN) and Scheduled
Transfer (ST), new ANSI networking and protocol standards capable of
delivering data at billions of bytes per second. GSN will serve as the
backbone for moving Gigabit Ethernet (GigE), Asynchronous Transfer Mode
(ATM), High performance Parallel Interface (HIPPI), and other network
traffic to and from Fiber Channel (FC) storage arrays. Large GSN
networks are already deployed at Los Alamos National Laboratories in New
Mexico, as well as several other U.S. government sites.
Carl Pick, Chairman & CEO of GENROCO remarked, "Applications such as
CERN's, as well as weather forecasting, HDTV, seismic analysis, and
satellite image processing, will generate terabytes per second of data.
Today, only GSN and ST can provide the bandwidth and scalability to
handle these requirements and interoperate with Fibre Channel, GigE, and
ATM at the same time."
GERNROCO is a leading provider of high performance digital video,
storage, and network interfaces to such companies as Compaq, SUN, SGI,
Tektronix, and Fujitsu. The company is the first to offer GSN adapters,
switches, routers, and storage arrays for a wide range of high
performance UNIX and Windows NT platforms.
Additional information about GENROCO can be found at:
genroco.com.
An overview of the project can be found at:
cern.ch.
GSN and ST resources and links can be found at:
hnf.org.
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Media Contact:
Dru Popper-Lopez
Director, Marketing and Communications
GENROCO, Inc.
505-238-4344
dru@genroco.com
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