DataDirect
Networks (DDN) today announced several new high-performance computing
(HPC) storage solutions and capabilities, which it will feature this
week at the International Supercomputing event, ISC 2018, in Frankfurt,
Germany. These new solutions include two workload-accelerating,
100-percent NVMe storage appliances, the SFA200NV and SFA400NV which
are built to meet changing business demands; enhancements to DDN's
enterprise-ready Lustre file system solution, EXAScaler 4.0, which
provides advanced capabilities on top of the world's most scalable file
system; and DDN's next-generation scale-up, scale-out hybrid flash
storage appliance, the SFA7990.
"The
new offerings from DDN highlight the merger of new flash technologies
and new high-performance workloads," said Addison Snell, chief executive
officer, Intersect360 Research. "Moreover, DDN continues to show
leadership with Lustre, the most used parallel file system in our latest
survey of HPC environments."
As
AI and deep learning applications continue to proliferate and present
the data center with new workloads, DDN, with its history of solving the
most intractable IO problems, is ready to assist with products to
accelerate its customers' lines of business.
"Many
of DDN's customers are entrenched in challenges they had not previously
faced in the data center. We have always collaborated to help them
solve their most demanding problems, but now we are taking it a step
further," said James Coomer, vice president of product, DDN. "The new
line of products is designed to efficiently address the needs of HPC
customers, while simultaneously enabling newer AI and deep learning
architectures."
DDN EXAScaler 4.0
DDN
has enhanced its EXAScaler line with the new EXAScaler 4.0, the only
enterprise-ready Lustre file system solution providing advanced
capabilities for customers running technical and high-performance
computing (HPC) workloads and customers supporting artificial
intelligence (AI) and deep learning environments. DDN has engineered the
EXAScaler 4.0 to provide best-in-class high availability, reliability
and serviceability capabilities.
In
addition, customers can count on DDN's expertise to help them address
the challenges of Exascale and big data analytics while minimizing costs
through improved integration, monitoring and management. EXAScaler 4.0
offers increased metadata performance, integrated monitoring
capabilities and enhanced security features that allow customers to
implement and deploy parallel file systems in complex, highly secure
environments. The new solution also delivers simplified installation and
deployment methods.
DDN SFA200NV and SFA400NV
Following
industry trends and requirements, DDN has developed an entirely new
class of DDN Storage Fusion Architecture appliances, the SFA200NV and
the SFA400NV. At up to 40GB/s and 1.5M IOPS, the 2U SFA NVMe all flash
platforms provide the fastest storage solution in the industry and can
hold up to 24 NVMe SSDs in a minimum 2U form factor. Whether
accelerating an analytics workload, reducing latencies for tough NoSQL
databases, or handling a growing deep learning project, DDN's SFA NVMe
platforms are ideal cost-effective elements in solving challenging IO
problems. The platforms are available as block storage devices or as
integrated high-performance file appliances. DDN's EXAScaler and
GRIDScaler file systems enable a storage "building block" model to
scale-out the parallel file name space with maximum efficiency.
DDN SFA7990
The
SFA7990 is the ultimate midrange platform for storage consolidation.
The SFA7990 hybrid flash storage platform is designed to grow with the
needs of an organization's accelerating business requirements and
provides flexibility without compromise. Customers can start with as
small as a few terabytes and grow seamlessly to multi-petabyte capacity.
The SFA7990 appliance can also be configured with embedded
high-performance parallel file systems in an integrated package. DDN's
SFA7990 EXAScaler and GRIDScaler solutions provide a modular approach to
building the most capable platforms for parallel file storage systems.