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Galactic successfully implemented a control tower
system in an International Airport
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Galactic Computing Ltd., the world's leading
supercomputer high performance computing and storage supplier has
implemented a control tower system at one of the world’s busiest
International Airport. Galactic prevailed during the public tender
for this project in competition with many well known high-performance
computing solution providers. Having undergone a rigorous, fair and
impartial inspection and screening, Galactic Computing Ltd. (http://www.galactic.com.hk/)
won the bid by showcasing the features of the offered systems –
cost-effective super computer blades with built-in high availability,
high-performance and superior safety features in addition to the standard
high-performance servers and versatile storage devices. This strong
product line is reinforced by the track record of providing optimized
system solutions comprising diverse hardware and software components.
The Airport is built in a particular geographical location with frequently
changing weather conditions often exacerbated by dense clouds, heavy
rains and storms. The system required a stable server cluster that
could perform fast high precision calculations and have a secure and
stable operation system for reliable data storage and management.
Ensuring precision in construction of the system for the airport control
tower was particularly important; a small error can end up disrupting
the traffic flow through the surrounding airspace. To effectively
implement a system to the airport control tower a large number of
performance and security issues were addressed.
As a high performance computing and storage provider, Galactic constructed
a "multi-core blade + Infiniband storage systems" solution,
processing the radar data and passing it over to the airport aviation
control systems. Galactic equipped the system with the latest fifth-generation
SuperBlade design based on the latest multi-core Intel Xeon processors
with high-speed low-latency Infiniband interfaces for peer-to-peer
communications and Infiniband-enabled storage devices for data access.
The use of Galactic high-performance software suite, as well as the
implementation of the GFS cluster file system, data mirroring with
failover, remote backup availability, added an extra measure of reliability
to the processing of crucial operational data. The system was built
to operate within the framework of the weather forecasting system
using Galactic’s blades and storage systems providing effective
data protection and an emergency capability of parallel job execution
at different physical locations, available 24 hours a day, 365 days
a year. A notable characteristic of the installation based on multi-core
blade servers is the ability to extend the overall life cycle of the
system by offering a seamless replacement of computing elements without
any impact on the overall system wiring (and negligible impact on
system performance). Using these features Galactic successfully implemented
a stable and secure control system for the Airport’s weather
reporting control tower.
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