Modern scientific research is driven by data intensity, computational scale, and the need to move quickly from raw information to meaningful insight. From genomics and bioinformatics to climate modeling, simulation, AI-assisted analysis, and advanced engineering workflows, research organizations require infrastructure that can support large datasets, demanding compute requirements, long-term retention, and secure collaboration.
SteelDome provides a unified software-defined foundation built for the operational demands of modern research. Powered by StratiSYSTEM and delivered through StratiSTOR, StratiSERV, and HyperSERV, SteelDome enables research institutions to build, scale, and manage high-performance environments with the flexibility, resilience, and control needed to accelerate discovery.
- Managing massive and continuously growing datasets across experiments, simulations, sequencing, and instrument output
- Supporting high-throughput and compute-intensive workloads for modeling, analytics, and discovery
- Providing secure, scalable storage for raw, processed, and archival data
- Enabling collaboration across labs, departments, institutions, and distributed teams
- Reducing time to insight in highly competitive, grant-driven, and deadline-sensitive environments
- Maintaining strong governance and protection for sensitive or regulated research data
StratiSTOR: High-Performance Storage for Research Data
- Delivers scalable block, file, and object storage for simulation outputs, genomic data, raw instrument data, analytical datasets, and long-term archives
- Provides the throughput and scale needed for data-intensive research workflows and parallel access patterns
- Supports replication, tiering, and resilient data management for long-term retention, continuity, and multi-site research operations
StratiSERV: Compute Flexibility for Analytical and Research Workloads
- Supports virtual machines and containers for research applications, Jupyter-based workflows, analytics platforms, AI and machine learning frameworks, and specialized lab environments
- Enables flexible compute environments for diverse teams, projects, and departmental needs
- Helps standardize and simplify research infrastructure while supporting hybrid application and compute models
HyperSERV: Unified Infrastructure for Research Environments
- Combines compute, storage, and orchestration into a single software-defined platform for streamlined deployment and operations
- Scales as data volumes, users, and workload demands grow, without forcing disruptive rearchitecture
- Simplifies delivery of collaborative platforms, research applications, and data-intensive environments through a common operational model
Genomics and Bioinformatics
Manage high-volume sequencing data and bioinformatics pipelines with scalable storage and the performance needed for alignment, annotation, analysis, and long-term retention.
Scientific Simulation and Modeling
Support simulation-heavy workloads such as computational fluid dynamics, molecular modeling, climate analysis, and physics research with infrastructure built for sustained compute and data throughput.
AI and Machine Learning in Research
Run AI-driven research workflows for pattern recognition, prediction, classification, and advanced analysis using high-performance storage and flexible compute environments.
Collaborative Research and Data Sharing
Enable secure sharing of datasets, applications, and research environments across teams, labs, and institutions while maintaining centralized control and governance.
- Scalable infrastructure for structured and unstructured research data
- High-performance access for analytics, simulation, and compute-intensive workflows
- Unified compute and storage operations through a software-defined platform
- Reduced infrastructure complexity across growing and distributed research environments
- Strong resilience and continuity for ongoing research operations
- Support for modern automation, reproducibility, and flexible workload delivery
- Secure handling of sensitive and regulated research data
- Universities and academic research institutions
- Genomics and bioinformatics centers
- Government and public-sector scientific agencies
- Private research and development organizations
- AI and data science research teams
- Environmental, physical, engineering, and life sciences groups
With SteelDome, research organizations gain a modern infrastructure foundation designed to support discovery at scale. Whether the focus is genomics, simulation, AI-assisted analysis, or collaborative data-intensive science, SteelDome provides the performance, flexibility, and resilience needed to move research forward with confidence.