DDN announced at SC22 a new Reference Architecture in
collaboration with Atos.
DDN also introduced enhancements to its scalable and flexible monitoring
interface, DDN Insight, to streamline and simplify management and support of HPC
and AI infrastructures at-scale.
DDN worked in tight collaboration with Atos on this new
Reference Architecture to advance DDN's goal of simplifying the adoption of
advanced AI infrastructure for enterprises and research institutions.
Historically, storage systems were often chosen to complement compute
infrastructure as it was being deployed. This approach leads to silos of data
and requires data movement to use the optimal compute platform for a certain
stage of processing. DDN's approach allows data to stay in a single manageable
system, regardless of the compute technology used, with scalable performance
and capacity to accommodate any rate of growth.
The collaboration between Atos and DDN is founded on a
long relationship between the two companies. Having deployed some of the
world's largest supercomputing systems together, the integration of DDN's A3I®
AI400X2 appliances with Atos's BullSequana XH3000 systems is a natural
continuation of that relationship. With DDN's parallel file system delivering
data with high-throughput, low-latency and massive concurrency for processing
by the XH3000 systems, customers can be assured that they are maximizing the
performance of their applications. Combining cutting-edge GPU processing,
proven HPC software suites, Atos next-generation (DLC) Direct Liquid Cooling
technology, and an architecture that is flexible, dense and secured by design,
BullSequana XH3000 delivers both unprecedented performance and unrivaled
efficiency, which is complemented by DDN's small footprint and economical
performance.
"Atos is pleased to pursue and strengthen our current
strategic partnership with DDN data storage solutions, which are a key element
for the high-performance AI computing systems we are providing to our
customers," said Dr Cédric Bourrasset, Head of High-Performance AI computing at
Atos. "This new Reference Architecture, based on our new BullSequana XH3000 and
DDN A3I Appliances, will bring the power efficiency required to
address the future training challenges with the next generation of AI models."
DDN Insight helps organizations see across their
infrastructure and workloads to improve service levels and find the root cause
of complex issues faster. DDN Insight can monitor hardware on workloads down to
the individual job level from a single dashboard. The new 4.2 release delivers
better visualization of components and real-time operation of an EXAScaler
environment.
"DDN systems address some of the largest data challenges
on earth," said Dr. James Coomer, senior vice president of product at DDN. "Our
goal is to simplify the storage and management associated with large AI, HPC
and analytics data sets. These Reference Architectures and the enhancements to
DDN Insight allow customers to quickly adopt and put into production new
technologies, streamline their infrastructure management and take proactive
steps to keep their environment healthy."