[Beowulf] Accelerator for data compressing

[Xu, Jerry]

Hello, 

 Currently I generate nearly one TB data every few days and I need to pass it
along enterprise network to the storage center attached to my HPC system, I am
thinking about compressing it (most tiff format image data) as much as I can, as
fast as I can before I send it crossing network ... So, I am wondering whether
anyone is familiar with any hardware based accelerator, which can dramatically
improve the compressing procedure.. suggestion for any file system architecture
will be appreciated too..  I have couple of contacts from some vendors but not
sure whether it works as I expected, so if anyone has experience about it and
want to share, it will be really appreciated !



Thanks,

Jerry

Jerry  Xu  PhD
HPC Scientific Computing Specialist 
Enterprise Research Infrastructure Systems (ERIS) 
Partners Healthcare, Harvard Medical School
http://www.partners.org

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