Solution Examples
Since 2003, GraphStream has delivered advanced IT solutions to
many hundreds of client sites worldwide. Our high rate of repeat
business is an indicator of strong customer satisfaction.
The following sections provide some examples of how GraphStream
works together with clients and suppliers in multiple fields to improve
the efficiency of IT applications.
Solution Examples: Healthcare
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GraphStream offers a range of solutions for radically improving
the efficiency of clinical-information management and access within
single-site and multi-site healthcare enterprises. Here are two
examples:
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Calgary
Scientific offers software packages that provide entirely new
capabilities and enhanced workflows for interacting with clinical
information. The FDA-cleared ResolutionMD suite provides advanced
clinical-information acess, visualization, and analysis capabilities,
with secure, regulation-compliant access from any location.
ResolutionMD uses servers to render visualizations of clinical
data retrieved from one or more archives using industry-standard
protocols. These visualizations are then sent to one or more client
devices that enable user interaction. A key element of the
data-security compliance model is that only the visualizations, and
not the clinical data, are sent to client devices.
ResolutionMD supports access from a range of client devices,
including high-end diagnostic workstations; wireless mobile platforms
such as Apple IOS (e.g. iPad, iPhone) and Android; and any other
system equipped with a Web browser.
ResolutionMD delivers superior low-latency interactivity on client
devices, and allows multiple users to work collaboratively in a shared
visual workspace. Each participant in a collaboration session may
join from any location worldwide using any supported client device,
and is provided with a uniquely-colored cursor that is visible to all
participants.
GraphStream offers services and infrastructure for ResolutionMD
deployments. We offer multiple options for the required
infrastructure, including choices of on-site or off-site, and
dedicated or cloud-based.
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The clinical information that a healthcare enterprise must manage may
include imaging studies from radiology, cardiology, oncology, and
other specialties; digital-pathology images; video recordings from
endoscopy; EEG and EKG data from sleep studies; laboratory-test
reports; document scans; and many other data types. In many
organizations, this rapidly growing mass of information is scattered
across numerous specialized department-level hardware systems that use
myriad vendor-proprietary data formats and inefficient, outdated
storage technologies.
GraphStream offers solutions that enable organizations to take
control of their clinical information; migrate it into modern
enterprise-IT infrastructure; store it using open industry-standard
data formats; apply uniform best-practices for regulatory compliance,
backup, data integrity, and security; and provide efficient, secure
access to users via industry-standard interfaces.
For enterprise clinical-data archive implementations, GraphStream
offers both services and infrastructure. Available services include
system design and planning; installation and configuration; and data
migration/ingest. As with ResolutionMD mentioned above, we offer
multiple options for the required infrastructure, including choices of
on-site or off-site, and dedicated or cloud-based.
Solution Examples: Energy
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GraphStream works with clients in the global upstream Oil&Gas
industry to deploy a variety of custom-configured systems that
dramatically improve the efficiency of specific applications. Here are
some examples:
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Energy exploration and production companies have volumes of highly
proprietary mission-critical shared data that need to be accessed
securely and simultaneously for both reading and writing from numerous
staffed and unstaffed sites all over the world. Some of these sites
are extremely remote (e.g. offshore platforms) and
resource-constrained, with little or no local IT support capability.
There are many ways to provide the infrastructure needed for this
application. Most involve either high-cost, low-volume, specialized
vendor-proprietary software and hardware components, or complex and
expensive combinations of general-purpose enterprise-IT products from
multiple suppliers, including Network-Attached Storage units, local
disk-to-disk or tape backup systems, hardware appliances for security
and for WAN optimization, and software licenses for a variety of
extra-cost capabilities.
GraphStream offers an alternative solution for this application,
based on the Nasuni
distributed enterprise-storage service, that provides superior
capability while radically reducing total cost, complexity,
space/power/cooling footprint, and maintenance requirements. This
solution scales easily to any number of sites and any quantity of
shared data.
Each site deploys a single virtual or physical appliance, which
can take the form of a small rackmount server, a compact embedded
system, or even a notebook computer. This system provides access via
CIFS and NFS protocols to one or more high-availability cloud-based
shared storage volumes, including standard enterprise-IT access
controls, instantaneous elastic capacity scaling, encryption,
file-level versioning, deduplication, thin provisioning, off-site data
protection, disaster recovery with unprecedented performance, caching
for local access performance, and WAN optimization. All of this
capability covering all sites is provided for a single annual fee
based only on the amount of data actually being stored. The total
cost of this solution is a small fraction of what alternatives
cost.
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Companies that offer seismic-data processing services seek advantage
in a highly competitive market by integrating and optimizing complete
scalable systems that combine proprietary processing algorithms and
software with efficient networking, processing, and storage
infrastructure based on Commercial Off-The-Shelf (COTS) components.
GraphStream is currently providing our seismic-processing clients
with highly scalable systems that incorporate a wide range of software
and hardware components, including Bright
Computing cluster-management software, Mellanox
InfiniBand-FDR 56Gbps network fabrics, Intel Xeon CPUs, NVIDIA Tesla GPUs for processing acceleration,
and solid-state storage systems for I/O acceleration.
GraphStream has been deploying commercial scalable
technical-computing systems with InfiniBand networking and per-node
GPU acceleration since 2003, far longer than any other
supplier. GraphStream's seismic-processing clients benefit from our
superior depth of experience with this type of infrastructure, as we
work with them to plan and execute intelligent strategies for phased
incremental deployments of additional infrastructure capacity to meet
their growing needs.
Cost per unit of networking, processing, and storage capacity is
continuing to drop rapidly, with frequent introductions of new,
dramatically more efficient component designs. For future
scalable-system designs, higher-speed and lower-latency Ethernet
networking will compete against InfiniBand, and upcoming single-chip
processors will compete against multi-chip GPU+GPU systems.
Additionally, seismic-processing providers have traditionally acquired
capacity by purchasing and leasing hardware, but ongoing improvements
in the cost-efficiency and security of cloud-based infrastructure are
leading to increasing interest in capacity-on-demand
models. GraphStream will continue to work together with our
seismic-processing clients to navigate these technology transitions
successfully.
Solution Example: Government/Defense
The U.S. Department of Energy (DoE) uses some of the world's
highest-capacity supercomputing systems to run physical simulations.
These simulations produce terabyte-scale datasets as output. DoE
continues to seek more-efficient ways to produce visualizations of
these datasets.
GraphStream responded to this DoE requirement by working together
with Intel, NVIDIA, and Mellanox to
deliver the world's first commercially integrated scalable
technical-computing systems with GPU acceleration in each processing
node and InfiniBand networking.
GraphStream has deployed a number of the world's largest systems
of this type to DoE National Laboratories: Argonne, Idaho, Lawrence
Livermore, Los Alamos, Oak Ridge, and Sandia. Like many of
GraphStream's clients, DoE has entrusted GraphStream with
mission-critical, multi-million-dollar integration projects, and
GraphStream has delivered systems with leading-edge performance and
efficiency, on-schedule and on-budget.
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GraphStream 18-cabinet, 257-server scalable visualization system
at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
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Solution Examples: Legal Services
GraphStream's clients in the Legal Services industry face a common
set of IT-infrastructure challenges, including the following:
- Legal IT organizations are seeing exponential growth in the
volume of electronically stored information (ESI), and near-instant
demands for additional storage capacity driven by each new case or
Litigation Support initiative. Conventional enterprise data-storage
systems simply cannot meet these capacity-scaling demands
efficiently.
- Legal professionals are demanding secure access to all of the ESI
that they need to get their work done, including real-time
collaborative data sharing among any number of colleagues, from any
number of locations anywhere in the world, at any time, on any set of
devices, including personally owned mobile devices such as smartphones
and tablets. Conventional IT systems cannot provide these
capabilities. Many of the emerging cloud-based IT platforms claim to
offer a solution, but cannot meet the stringent security and
data-integrity requirements of the Legal Services industry.
Litigation Support, in particular, requires that ESI be stored and
managed in a way that ensures its absolute defensibility in a court of
law; anything else would render it inadmissible.
- Like other distributed enterprises, there are many law firms that
require advanced IT service delivery and support at multiple
geographically dispersed office locations, but do not have the ability
to deploy an extensive dedicated IT staff at every location.
GraphStream provides innovative, integrated solutions that address
these challenges directly and radically improve the efficiency of our
clients' operations. Here are two examples of advanced IT building
blocks that GraphStream uses in solutions for Legal Services
clients:
- The Nasuni
distributed enterprise-storage service is unique among Storage as a
Service (StaaS) offerings in meeting the requirements of the most
advanced Legal Services organizations. The Nasuni service combines
instantaneous, massive capacity scalability; unmatched security
including military-grade encryption and IT-managed keys; integrated
native support for secure, simultaneous read-write access to shared
storage volumes from any number of IT-authorized mobile-device and
fixed-site users located anywhere in the world; fast access to huge
datasets via local caching; ease of IT integration via full native
support of industry-standard interfaces including Active Directory,
SMB/CIFS, NFS, and HTTPS; and proactive remote monitoring and
management of entire fleets of storage-access devices.
- For Legal IT organizations that need high-performance in-house
processing and storage capacity for virtualized applications,
including Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI), the Nutanix converged
scale-out processing+storage platform offers a radically simpler and
more efficient alternative to conventional server+SAN
infrastructure. There are numerous competing "converged
infrastructure" platforms, but Nutanix offers a unique and
industry-leading combination of CAPEX and OPEX savings; operational
simplicity; data-management efficiency; linear performance
scalability; incremental expandability; and physical-footprint
reduction.
Solution Example: Manufacturing
GraphStream works with partners to deploy scalable interactive
systems for computer-aided design and manufacturing. These systems
use virtualization technologies to share datacenter-based pools of
networking, processing, and storage capacity among multiple concurrent
interactive users. This sharing enables superior flexibility and
efficiency in resource utilization, and can span multiple interaction
modalities including:
- Team rooms with immersive multi-channel video and audio output
systems, and a variety of input devices.
- Desktop workstations with multiple high-resolution displays.
- Mobile wireless input/display units, including tablets and
smartphones.
Solution Example: Financial Services
GraphStream's financial-services clients use advanced scalable
data networking, processing, and storage systems in real-time trading
applications. Key competitive attributes of these systems include:
- Superior space and power efficiency, which helps to minimize
latency by enabling installation of systems in close physical
proximity to exchange-operated data plants.
- Lower network latency, using leading-edge Ethernet and InfiniBand
networking components from Arista and Mellanox.
- Higher processing throughput, via a combination of Intel Xeon CPUs and
NVIDIA Tesla
GPUs.
- Superior storage latency and throughput, enhanced in some cases
by Fusion-io solid-state storage modules.
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