WekaIO, the leader in high performance, scalable file storage for data
intensive applications, today released independent SPEC SFS 2014 test
results, which substantiate its claim that WekaIO is the world's fastest
parallel file system. With record-breaking performance, WekaIO beat all
previously submitted dedicated appliance results by 2X, reaching 1200
simultaneous software builds.
The solution under test was a standard WekaIO Matrix enabled cluster in
dedicated appliance mode utilizing commercially available storage server
infrastructure. The software is capable of handling both large file I/O
as well as small file random I/O and metadata intensive applications
such as AI and technical compute workloads. No specialized tuning was
required for different or mixed-use workloads.
The SPEC SFS 2014 results were measured on just four BigTwin systems
from Supermicro, with Micron NVMe drives and Mellanox 100Gb/s
networking. Using off the shelf industry-standard components, WekaIO's
software achieved 1200 simultaneous software builds and 600K IOPS at 1
millisecond overall response time, beating a combination of IBM Spectrum
Scale 5.0 with NVMe-over-fabrics appliance by 2X.
"We couldn't be better positioned to support artificial intelligence
(AI), machine learning, research, and high performance computing (HPC)
workloads," said Liran Zvibel, CEO and Co-founder of WekaIO. "WekaIO
previously shattered the record by delivering 1000 software builds
running on r3.8xlarge instances on AWS. We wanted to be the first
company to show that we can deliver exceptional performance on any
server platform, on-premises or in the cloud. We believe these results
show our solution is uniquely positioned to be the best storage for
future hybrid infrastructure."
"With this SPEC SFS benchmark, WekaIO has proven that they can provide
industry leading performance using our BigTwin server systems," said
Michael McNerney, Vice-President, Software Solutions and Network
Security at Supermicro. "This benchmark also gives further testament to
how Supermicro BigTwin systems deliver incredible performance with low
latency and extra bandwidth for intense workloads. In fact, storage
performance is accelerated with native NVMe-over-fabrics support for
all-flash NVMe drives."
"We are delighted to partner with WekaIO," said Rob Davis, Vice
President of Storage Technology Mellanox. "The latest SPEC SFS results
for WekaIO indicate that Ethernet based storage services across a
distributed shared network powered by Spectrum switches and ConnectX
NICs, can deliver performance and latencies that are significantly
better than legacy architectures such as Fibre Channel."
To see the full report, go to SPEC SFS: https://www.spec.org/sfs2014/results/res2018q1/sfs2014-20180225-00038.html