GRIDScaler File Storage System

Extreme Performance and Scalability, Advanced Data Management and NAS Export Capabilities

DataDirect Networks GRIDScaler file storage system tightly integrates file services, data management and S2A Extreme Storage to optimize performance, enhance data integrity and availability, and simplify your environment. GRIDScaler enables S2A Extreme Storage to scale bandwidth to 200GB/s, always perform at full speed, delivering the highest quality of service with ZERO Degraded Mode, while growing in capacity into multiple petabytes. Simply and easily scale your environment with three GRIDScaler models (Large, Medium and Small Building Blocks).

GRIDScaler supports a wide variety of protocols to serve LAN, SAN and NAS clients, including NFS and CIFS and connects up to 2000 clients. GRIDScaler's advanced data protection and replication features, SATAssure and DirectRAID 6, ensure data integrity and high availability. With GRIDScaler both high performance and high capacity applications, such as archives, share a common set of files and storage, enabling you to deploy fewer systems and reduce costs. You can achieve further cost reductions and greater ROI with GRIDScaler by saving valuable floor space with industry-leading storage density, lowering power consumption with D-MAID, and deploying tiered storage.

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Capabilities

  • High-speed parallel file system clients for Linux and Windows systems
  • Supports 2000 clients
  • Integration with leading data management tools (Tivoli, HPSS)
  • Highly available (clustered) NFS gateway services
  • RDMA support for OFED Infiniband clusters,enabling client and server I/O over 1GB/s
  • Local file and metadata replication for speed and reliability
  • Snapshot capability for point-in-time file recovery
  • Intelligent data migration between intra-cluster storage pools
  • Mature, proven stability

Optimized For:

  • Seismic data acquisition and interpretation
  • 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 computer animation and VFX
  • Many more...

Break Through Limitations

Storage Challenges

Today's High Performance Computing environments place unprecedented demands on the storage infrastructure. Selecting the right storage platform is now the critical element to realize full cluster and application performance. Traditional storage solutions create 'data bottlenecks' between the physical disks storing the data and the compute nodes attempting to access and process that data. This results in lower application performance. The inability to fully realize investments in compute infrastructure and application licenses is unacceptable in today's competitive and budget restricted environment.

The GRIDScaler File Storage System

GRIDScaler breaks through limitations by integrating the most robust, proven parallel file system and S2A Extreme Storage to eliminate bottlenecks and deliver industry-leading performance, scalability and manageability. Massively scalable GRIDScaler building blocks enable you to grow your environment simply and cost-effectively, enabling you to gain the highest ROI and maximize the performance of your compute investments.

Features

  • Leverages industry-leading storage and file services
  • Volume scalability in small footprint

  • Unrivaled performance


  • Optimized for mixed I/O

  • Maximum data protection with exclusive DirectOS and SATAssure technology, plus intelligent snapshot, replication and backup integration
  • High availability design with zero single-points-of-failure

Benefits

  • Increase performance, simplify deployment and accelerate ROI

  • Reduce system sprawl and floor space during scale-out and easily absorb future data/content growth with high-density storage architecture that scales beyond 10 petabytes
  • Deliver aggregate performance of greater than 200GB/s from a single file system; Maximize client bandwidth with native Infiniband communication's high-speed, single stream I/O; Ensure continuous full speed operation with ZERO Degraded Mode
  • Reduce costs through storage tiers designed to appropriately place and migrate data across optimized IOPs and throughput resources, leveraging SAS, SATA and SSD technology
  • Safeguard data integrity while protecting file system performance from drive error and recovery events


  • Maximize data availability and system uptime with a highly-resilient 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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