DDN Inc. announced last month it had formed as partnership with Aspen Systems Inc. and that it was chosen by the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory to power its Coastal Observations, Mechanisms and Predictions Across Systems and Scales, or COMPASS project.
The project comprises a field study and a coastal modeling study and will help dramatically enhance the predictive understanding of coastal systems, including their response to short-term and long-term changes, according to a release from DDN.
The Chatsworth big data storage and artificial intelligence technology supplier and Aspen Systems in Wheat Ridge, Colo. will partner on delivering high-performance computing products that enable data-intensive organizations to lower times for analyzing data on premise and in the cloud.
Jeff Jordan, vice president of federal sales at DDN, said that Aspen Systems has the knowledge base to design a custom high-performance computing product around computing requirements, while DDN has the expertise to help customers manage data better, faster and safer at scale.
“Together, our goal is to provide our customers a premium end-to-end solution with the best performance for any application that allows customers to concentrate on what’s most important, their research,” Jordan said in a statement.Â
The Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in Richland, Wash. is part of the U.S. Department of Energy and operated by Battelle, one of the largest independent nonprofit applied science and technology organizations in the world, based in Columbus, Ohio.Â
The COMPASS project “is a multi-institution collaboration focused on better understanding the impact that flood events, rising tides and changes in sea levels can have on trees, plants, soil and water,” according to a story written by Steven Ashby, the lab’s director, and published in January in the Tri-City Herald newspaper. Â
“(Researchers) hope to learn how and why transition zones shrink and grow in response to natural and manmade events,” Ashby wrote.Â