EXAScaler File Storage System

Providing Pure Performance and Massive Scalability for HPC Applications

DataDirect Networks EXAScaler file storage system is a highly scalable turnkey solution that provides Linux-based applications near-wire-speed data transfer capabilities and unbounded capacity. Built upon best-of-breed open source file system technology and industry leading S2A Extreme Storage, DDN has carefully engineered this turnkey solution to reduce the complexity of deploying high performance computing storage and to scale with your evolving application requirements.

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Capabilities

  • Scalable performance from 2-250GB/s+
  • Accommodates petabytes of information in a single namespace
  • Up to 10,000 clients in clusters
  • Up to 5GB/s per storage building block
  • Completely fault-tolerant architecture
  • Wire-speed transport over RDMA networks, over 1GB/s per connection
  • SATAssure real-time drive error detection and correction
  • Read and write at the same speed
  • ZERO Degraded Mode even during disk, drive enclosure or disk channel failure
  • S2A Quality of Service enables broad file striping across many servers

Optimized For:

  • Seismic data acquisition and interpretation
  • Scalable ASIC simulation and ASIC mask creation
  • Market data analysis; Monte Carlo simulation
  • High-performance parallel computing
  • Computational physics, chemistry, biology
  • Weather modeling
  • Weapons simulation
  • Real-time surveillance and recognition
  • High-end digital intermediate applications
  • Network intrusion detection
  • Computer animations
  • Many more...

Break Through Limitations

Storage Challenges

The evolution of clustered computing and the emergence of scalable parallel applications present challenges for storage managers attempting to scale a common storage infrastructure to service ever-growing numbers of high-performance computers and terabytes of simulation data within a common volume.

The EXAScaler File Storage System

The EXAScaler File Storage System is an ideal application accelerator for large-scale, high performance computing and supercomputing applications. Used in environments that require high speed data access from a common volume across one or many clustered computers, this solution leverages commodity Ethernet as well as high-performance RDMA cluster networks to minimize the impact of both defensive and interactive cluster I/O and reduce computational application time.

Features

  • Full storage system integration with the leading open source parallel file system
  • High performance architecture

  • Boundless scalability

  • ZERO Degraded Mode

  • SATAssure real-time drive error detection and correction
  • Enterprise reliability

Benefits

  • Increase performance, simplify deployment and accelerate ROI

  • Reduce complexity and accelerate performance with the highly optimized S2A Extreme Storage and file system to
  • Grow storage infrastructure as data grows by scaling performance from 2GB/s to over 250GB/s and capacity from 50TB to dozens of petabytes in a single namespace, managing up to 10,000 clients in clusters
  • Perform always at full speed, even during: writes, drive rebuilds, RAID 6 calculations, data integrity validations or when system reaches full capacity
  • Realize SATA's cost benefits through multiple levels of protection to ensure performance and availability against dual-disk failures, silent SATA data corruption, drive rebuilds, and more
  • Maximize data availability with non-disruptive, failover capable server and storage architecture

Large Building Block

  • Extreme Storage: S2A9900
  • File Servers: 4 per Array
  • Connectivity: 4x IB DDR or 10GbE per SU
  • Performance: 10GbE = 3GB/s per scaling unit

    DDR IB = 5GB/s per scaling unit
  • Capacity: Up to 1.9PB usable per SU

Medium Building Block

  • Extreme Storage: S2A9700
  • File Servers: 4 per Array
  • Connectivity: 4x IB DDR or 10GbE per SU
  • Performance: 10GbE = 2.5GB/s per scaling unit

    DDR IB = 2.5GB/s per scaling unit
  • Capacity: Up to 1.9PB usable

Small Building Block

  • Extreme Storage: S2A6620
  • File Servers: 2 per Array
  • Connectivity: 2x IB DDR or 10GbE per SU
  • Performance: 10GbE = 1GB/s per scaling unit

    DDR IB = 1GB/s per scaling unit
  • Capacity: Up to 192TB usable

How to Buy

Harnessing 10 years of high-end storage expertise, we specify and deliver a pre-built, optimized storage solution for your shared storage and data management requirements.

Remove the guesswork associated with designing the right solution and deploy proven, reliable systems faster.

Our Professional Services Team provides:

  • System Consultation and Optimization Services
  • System pre-installation and installation services
  • Standard and Enterprise Support Services

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