Galactic Hospital Information Technology Mega Capacity Data Storage Solution (VSTOR)

As a proponent of increased use of information technologies in medicine, Galactic has thoroughly evaluated requirements for computerized management of a number of medical procedures (outpatient diagnostics, chemical tests, radiological tests, hospitalization, etc.). To satisfy these requirements Galactic designed a solution consisting of a centralized medical information database, PACS system, HIS system, and has resolved a number of issues in large capacity, high speed data transmission.
Galactic VSTOR storage system is targeted at information storage in a large size hospital. It uses a tiered storage management model with online storage, near-line storage, and offline backup storage.
VSTOR storage system has the following main features:
1. Cross board RAID technical support, this integrates the storage space of all LUN through RAID0 to form a big LUN. By generating data belts through multiple RAID card strips, IO bandwidth of the storage system increases by a few folds.
2. On a single platform, it can create storage space through InfiniBand, FC, iSCSI, NAS, SAS, build SAN, DAS, NAS structure, and integrate the data.
3. VSTOR storage system’s logic volume has only one primary “read” and “write” permission and multiple secondary “read” permissions. In a medical system, storage can be divided into B Ultra volume, Radiology volume, CT volume, only video equipment has the “write” permission, other equipment have only the “read” permission to perform data analysis. In this way it creates two volumes on the same volume: online and near-line.
In the entire hospital’s information system, Galactic VSTOR technology has resolved storage (online, near-line), backup and data transmission link issues. In addition, it has taken servers into full consideration. Using Galactic quad core server to meet the demand for large dataflow parallel I/O, using server I/O acceleration technology, supplemented with Fully Buffered DIMM technology, VSTOR offers data transmission rate twice as fast as the standard Ethernet.
Galactic hospital information storage solution significantly improves hospital’s management level, further enhances standards of overall medical services, and strengthens the hospitals’ overall competency.

Experts at Beijing Military Medical Institute conducted analysis, testing, and comparison of product features, and decided to use Galactic GT4000 super blade computing system. Galactic GT4000 super blade system’s computing efficiency can reach 84.35%, the highest in the world. With its powerful computing capability, excellent stability and reliability, this super computer built on Intel Xeon infrastructure provides a strong foundation for the Military Medical Institute to accomplish the sequencing calculation on SARS virus.
Galactic GT4000 super blade computing system is a cluster system composed of a large number of blades, including placement system, node system, network system, storage system, management system and power supply cooling system, etc. At each node, which is composed of server standard parts, and Galactic’s independently developed power supply distribution subsystem and InfiniBand high-speed interconnect distribution subsystem, every blade in the cabinet shares the general purpose components and I/O device, such as power supply, cable, fan, keyboard and mouse, etc. Through optimization, Galactic large scale parallel cluster system can expand to perform 100 trillion floating point calculations per second. Galactic GT4000 blade computing system is the first in the world that has integrated InfiniBand unlimited bandwidth technology and PCI-Express I/O bus technology on Intel solution platform, the real bandwidth of the network can reach more than 20 Gb.

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