Austin/Texas, Starnberg, 17. Nov. 2015 - Drei neue Lösungen für den Einsatz bei High-Performance-Computing (HPC)-Anwendungen; Support für IBM Spectrum Scale...
Zum Hintergrund: Seagate Technology stellt im Rahmen der Supercomputing 2015 (SC15) in Austin, Texas gerade drei neue Lösungen für den Einsatz bei High-Performance-Computing (HPC)-Anwendungen vor: ClusterStor A200, ClusterStor L300, ClusterStor G200. Die Seagate ClusterStor Speichersysteme vereinen laut Anbieter höchste Performance mit extrem effizienter Skalierbarkeit. Nachfolgend finden Sie die gekürzte Orginalmeldung des Herstellers von der SC15 mit dem Titel "SEAGATE ENGINEERS TIERED ARCHIVE SYSTEM FOR HPC STORAGE" / ClusterStor A200 Increases Data Availability; Reduces Costs by 50% for HPC Data Archiving (Quelle About Seagate):
"Nov. 17, 2015 - Seagate Technology plc (NASDAQ: STX) today introduced ClusterStor A200, a first-of-its-kind tiered archive storage for high performance computing (HPC). The A200 helps reduce storage and operational costs by up to 50 percent compared to tier-one storage platforms.
The A200 was designed to complement the rest of Seagate’s ClusterStor family of scale-out storage systems.
- It allows customers to non-disruptively migrate designated data off of the performance-optimized, primary storage tiers while keeping it online for fast retrieval. This avoids a common problem in shared HPC environments where the organization is forced to choose between having all of the data available to make the best analysis versus the time required to retrieve data from tape. Performance of the primary storage is often improved by migrating data and freeing up space for more efficient data layout. The pre-configured ClusterStor A200 solution includes an automatic policy-driven hierarchical storage management (HSM) system and near limitless scale-out capacity.
- The A200 consists of up to seven scalable storage units per rack with additional storage units and racks easily added to the storage pool, and a highly available ClusterStor management unit. The A200 system also includes a comprehensive management system with a single, easy-to-use administrator interface. The A200 system implements the 3rd generation ClusterStor erasure coding to provide unparalleled data and disaster protection with up to 11 nines of durability. This new and enhanced erasure code is network-based allowing it to use the resources of the entire system to achieve extremely fast rebuilds of failed drives, improving availability while maximizing the amount of useable storage delivered to the customer’s applications. To further enhance the durability of data in the A200 system, the ClusterStor erasure code uses a unique mechanism to prioritize the most critical data elements to rebuild, substantially improving the time required to return the system to maximum data protection.
- The ClusterStor family architecture is built on Seagate’s field-proven enterprise-class storage platforms and high performance parallel file systems such as LustreTM and Spectrum Scale. Combining superior performance with ultra-efficient scalability, the ClusterStor family includes ClusterStor A200, ClusterStor L300, ClusterStor G200, ClusterStor 9000, ClusterStor 1500, ClusterStor Secure Data Appliance and Hadoop Workflow Accelerator for ClusterStor’s architecture.
The new ClusterStor L300 contains technology innovation that supports an 'extreme mode' with up to 448 GB/sec performance per rack in addition to superior small file performance.
- This specific configuration combines Seagate's latest Flash Memory technology with the ClusterStor L300 integrated storage solution for high productivity applications requiring the ultimate in performance quality of service for the most demanding workload requirements. The ClusterStor L300 also supports the use of Seagate's Solid State Hybrid Drives providing a value option for transparent small file performance acceleration. The ClusterStor L300 Lustre solution supports Object Storage Target disk pool management that enables the creation of discrete storage pools for each type of media from Flash Memory, ClusterStor HPC Drives, Solid State Hybrid Drives and Capacity Drives as disk pools within the same file system. The disk pool management feature enables application consolidation within a single storage solution by providing the best performance quality of service value per individual application/workload.
- The L300 also supports next-generation networks built for Exascale computing, including Intel’s Omni-Path and the Mellanox ConnectX-4 Infiniband.
- The French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA) will use ClusterStor L300 for its next-generation supercomputer. A key component of its defense simulation program (DAM), the supercomputer will have a computation capacity of 25-petaflops and 20 times lower electricity consumption than its predecessor.
The G200 integrates with Seagate’s new 3.5-inch ClusterStor HPC drive specifically designed for the high-performance computing market, highlighting the company’s commitment to industry-leading HPC storage solutions.
- The explosion of data is affecting all facets of how organizations do business — and straining IT operations. As the first Seagate ClusterStor system supporting IBM’s popular Spectrum Scale file system (formerly known as General Parallel File System - GPFS), the G200 features a wide range of enterprise-class features and tools ideal for helping manage this data growth. It also enables high-performance data access critical to industries ranging from life sciences, to automotive and aerospace design, to financial services among a wide range of technical computing applications.
- G200 has been custom-designed from the ground up for HPC, with everything from disk drives to the enclosures and software tuned for HPC performance and scalability. The G200 storage system units are delivered in two models; the first has 84 slots for 3.5” HDD and SSD in a 5U enclosure with embedded storage controllers. The G200 (and the L300 Seagate’s new Lustre-based system) are the first enterprise HPC systems to deploy Seagate’s new ClusterStor HPC Drive. The 3.5-inch drive supports up to 4 terabytes (TB) and features a sequential data rate of 300 megabytes (MB) per second, and 35 percent faster random performance than any other 3.5-inch drive making it ideal for the broadest range of data ingest and access needs of HPC applications.
- The system comes pre-configured, tested and ready to deploy, so organizations can quickly have it up and running in hours to maximize productivity. In addition, users benefit from ClusterStor’s reduced footprint, compared to traditional external file-serving nodes, which helps lower power, cooling and administrative costs without compromising performance. And ClusterStor Spectrum Scale continues to utilize Grid RAID, Seagate’s declustered RAID feature addition that delivers rebuild times up to 400 percent faster than legacy RAID systems.
- ATOS, thru its Extreme Computing Business Unit, has worked in close partnership with Seagate to harness the performance and reliability of the new G200 ClusterStor solution. "We're currently stressing Seagate's new GPFS based appliance at Atos factory in Angers, France and pleased by what we’re seeing,” said Pascal Barbolosi, Vice President & GM Extreme Computing, Atos.
- Dell is committed to providing the right system optimization capabilities to the HPC community, and Seagate’s ClusterStor G200 Spectrum Scale is a valuable complement to our HPC portfolio,” said Onur Celebioglu, Director, HPC Solutions Engineering, Dell. “Building on our longstanding partnership with Seagate, G200 will help us meet the specific needs of an important and growing part of the HPC market, where data-intensive workloads require the right solution and support.”
The ClusterStor family is built on Seagate’s field-proven enterprise-class storage architecture, Lustre and now IBM Spectrum Scale. Combining superior performance with ultra-efficient scalability, the ClusterStor family includes ClusterStor L300, ClusterStor A200, ClusterStor G200, ClusterStor 9000, ClusterStor 1500, and the ClusterStor Secure Data Appliance..."