Supercomputer nutzen neueste Seagate-Hochleistungs-Speichertechnologie

Submitted by Storage Consortium on 30 April, 2015 - 11:55

Cupertino (CA), Starnberg, 30. April 2015 - Cray Sonexion storage parallel file system mit Lustre v2.5 unterstützt bis zu 16 Mrd. Dateien pro Filesystem…

Zum Hintergrund: Seagate Technology liefert Supercomputer-Spezialist Cray die neueste High Performance Computing- Storagetechnologie. Sie wird erstmals bei vier Kunden von Cray implementiert, die insgesamt eine Speicherkapazität von über 120 Petabyte benötigen. Zum Einsatz kommt ein Cray Sonexion 2000 System, das alle Hardware-, Software- und Support-Elemente der neuesten Version des parallelen Dateisystems Lustre 2.5 kombiniert (Komplettlösung). Danach können bis zu 16 Milliarden Dateien pro Filesystem verarbeitet werden. Zudem wird ein hierarchisches Speichermanagement (HSM) für den simplen Datentransfer zwischen unterschiedlichen Speichertypen geliefert, bei dem Geschwindigkeiten von bis zu einem Terabyte pro Sekunde erreicht werden (Quelle: Seagate).

Hier finden Sie eine Übersicht zu den vier aktuellen Anwenderbeispielen der o.g. Cray-/Lustre-/Seagate – Gesamtlösung:

The four Cray customers using the latest high performance computing storage technology include the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), Saudi Arabia-based King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Petroleum Geo-Services, and the U.K.’s Met Office, who are all using the Cray® Sonexion® 2000 system.

For the NNSA, Lustre 2.5 will enhance the agency’s Trinity supercomputer, which runs the largest and most demanding simulations of the United States’ nuclear stockpile across all three of the NNSA’s national laboratories, including Los Alamos National Laboratory, Sandia National Laboratories and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Powered by Seagate, the Cray Sonexion 2000 system provides Trinity with the necessary storage and compute capabilities needed for the simulations, which help maintain the safety, security and effectiveness of the U.S. nuclear deterrent without the use of underground testing.
Petroleum Geo-Services is a focused marine geophysical company providing a broad range of seismic and reservoir services, including acquisition, imaging, interpretation, and field evaluation. The PGS MultiClient data library is among the largest in the seismic industry, with modern 3D coverage in all significant offshore hydrocarbon provinces of the world. PGS operates on a worldwide basis with headquarters at Oslo, Norway. The new Cray XC40 supercomputer and Sonexion storage system, Powered by Seagate, will provide PGS with the advanced computational capabilities necessary to run highly complex seismic processing and imaging applications. These applications include imaging algorithms for the PGS Triton survey, which is the most advanced seismic imaging survey ever conducted in the deep waters of the Gulf of Mexico.

KAUST, a public research university based in Saudi Arabia, uses the new system as part of its high performance computing and computational research aimed at solving the world’s biggest water, food, energy and environmental challenges. With the Cray Sonexion 2000 system, KAUST gains a scalable platform with the performance capabilities and useable capacity necessary to support its large array of research applications.
The United Kingdom’s national weather service - the Met Office - relies on supercomputers to help gather and process data for its weather and climate forecasts, which are recognized among the most accurate in the world. The Cray Sonexion 2000 system, Powered by Seagate, provides the storage necessary for the Met Office’s operational weather prediction and climate research, which spans 60 locations and includes more than 10 million daily weather observations used to create 3,000 tailored forecasts and briefings.

Zitat Ken Claffey, vice president of ClusterStor, Seagate Cloud Systems and Solutions: “…Data-intensive environments — from research institutions and laboratories to those increasingly found in the enterprise sector — require solutions that can accommodate their workflows and need for faster time-to-results in order to provide actionable information; Our latest software releases incorporates enhancements like Lustre 2.5 and a range of new system management capabilities to complement and enhance our hardware storage solutions. These complete solutions allow Seagate and Cray to ensure that high-performance computing customers are deriving the most value from their systems at all times.”