HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING
Tech Focus: Storage
A ROUND-UP OF THE LATEST STORAGE PRODUCTS AND TECHNOLOGY AVAILABLE FOR SCIENTISTS USING HPC AS A TOOL FOR THEIR RESEARCH
installations with BeeGFS, IBM Spectrum Scale or Lustre, and many more configurations. DDN is one of the premier
The storage market is in a unique position, in that there is demand from both the traditional HPC and enterprise storage markets, such as media and entertainment, alongside new growing markets for AI and machine learning. This has created huge potential to increase market share for storage vendors, as long as they can deliver the necessary performance required by HPC and AI users. While storage volumes
continue to increase dramatically, storage providers are trying to meet demand by increasing storage performance, while introducing more efficient methods of managing data across large multi-petabyte storage platforms. Choosing the right system
for a particular workflow is critical to getting the most out of storage technology. The traditional products associated with parallel file systems still persist, but now there is increasing competition from cloud and all-flash storage arrays, which are becoming increasingly attractive to users at opposite ends of the hardware spectrum.
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providers of high-performance storage solutions, voted top in high-performance storage for AI and HPC computing in 2020 (HPCwire Readers’ and Editors’ Choice Awards). With DDN A3I and EXAScaler data management solutions, organisations can analyse petascale datasets, with capacities up to 500+ PB, and throughput up to 2TB/second. Excelero’s NVMesh
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Atipa’s Capella storage solutions are scalable, affordable, reliable and high performance. The Capella LZE series storage solution is its flagship Lustre appliance, including high-availability and advanced monitoring features. The starting configuration consists of one Lustre metadata/management module and one Lustre object storage module. BullSequana Xstor is a single
family of storage appliances from Atos. With machine learning and data analytics creating many of the most challenging HPC workloads in the move towards the exascale era, Atos participates in initiatives to strengthen industrial control of digital simulation and big data technologies. BeeGFS is a parallel
file system, developed and optimised for high- performance computing.
It includes a distributed metadata architecture for scalability and flexibility, and is available free for end-users. For enterprise systems, professional commercial support is available, usually in co-operation with international turn-key solution partners. Caringo’s Swarm
software-defined object storage provides a complete platform for data protection, management, organisation and search at massive scale for all unstructured data (e.g., photos, videos and files). Users no longer need to migrate data to separate solutions for long- term preservation, delivery and analysis. Consolidate all files in Swarm, then easily find the data.
ClusterVision has 16 years
of knowledge and expertise working with different storage solutions, with straight-forward to very complex installations. It can offer classic NAS systems, (hybrid) cloud solutions, parallel HPC storage
software-defined storage deploys distributed data protection over public cloud instances with ephemeral NVMe drives, creating a unique, virtual, high- performance and low-latency storage pool. Excelero delivers low-latency distributed block storage for web-scale applications. NVMesh enables shared NVMe across any network and supports any local or distributed file system. HPC using Fungible
solutions eliminates lengthy delays and lost output typically related to legacy HPC clusters. Elastic, high-performance configurations that support practically unrestricted scalability allow you to grow and contract infrastructure as applications require. HPE provides HPC storage
solutions that span the whole storage hierarchy to accelerate time-to-insights, while managing and protecting valuable data in parallel file systems in a cost-effective way. Its Cray ClusterStor E1000 storage system embeds Lustre and is ideal for attachment with HPE Slingshot, InfiniBand HDR and 100/200 GbE to HPC
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