Seagate Boosts HPC Storage Density and Performance With ClusterStor L300 for Lustre
November 17 2015 - 8:03AM
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System Increases Performance per Rack Unit by
77%; Offers New ClusterStor HPC Disk Drive and Network
Compatibilities with Intel and Mellanox
Seagate Technology plc (NASDAQ: STX) today introduced
ClusterStor™ L300, the newest and highest performing version of its
ClusterStor Lustre® storage architecture. The L300 integrates with
Seagate’s new 3.5-inch ClusterStor HPC drive specifically designed
for the high-performance computing market, establishing the
company’s commitment to full HPC solutions.
The L300 delivers up to 112 gigabytes-per-second (GB/sec)
throughput per rack when integrated with Seagate’s ClusterStor HPC
drives, a performance improvement of 77 percent compared to
previous ClusterStor systems. This level of performance density per
rack unit helps customers reduce data center space, power and
cooling costs while simplifying management and equipment
requirements. Additionally, the solution optimizes random and
sequential I/O workloads across the entire storage cluster,
improving workflow productivity.
Seagate is also introducing its ClusterStor HPC Drive, which can
be integrated with the ClusterStor L300 for extra high-performing
storage in big data environments. The ClusterStor HPC Drive alone
supports up to four terabytes in a single drive slot with the
highest sequential data rate of any hard disk drive on the market
at 300 megabytes-per-second. It produces 35 percent faster random
performance than any other 3.5-inch drive, and is backed by a Mean
Time Between Failures (MTBF) of two million hours, making it ideal
for the data ingest, access and reliability needs in today’s
toughest HPC environments.
The new ClusterStor L300 contains technology innovation that
supports an ‘extreme mode’ with up to 448 GB/sec performance per
rack in addition to superior small file performance. This
specific configuration combines Seagate’s latest Flash
Memory technology with the ClusterStor L300 integrated
storage solution for high productivity
applications requiring the ultimate in
performance quality of service for the most demanding workload
requirements. The ClusterStor L300 also supports the use of
Seagate’s Solid State Hybrid Drives providing a value option
for transparent small file performance acceleration.
The ClusterStor L300 Lustre solution supports Object Storage Target
disk pool management that enables the creation of discrete storage
pools for each type of media from Flash Memory, ClusterStor HPC
Drives, Solid State Hybrid Drives and Capacity Drives as disk pools
within the same file system. The disk pool management
feature enables application consolidation within a single
storage solution by providing the best performance quality of
service value per individual application/workload.
The L300 also supports next-generation networks built for
Exascale computing, including Intel’s Omni-Path and the Mellanox
EDR 100Gb/s Infiniband.
“The L300 exemplifies Seagate’s growing leadership in HPC
storage and embodies our multiple layers of innovation from the
file system to the core storage media itself,” said Ken Claffey,
vice president and general manager, Seagate HPC systems business.
“ClusterStor integrates the latest in Big Data technologies to
deliver class-leading ingest speeds, massively scalable capacities
to more than 100PB and the ability to handle a variety of mixed
workloads.”
The French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission
(CEA) intends to use ClusterStor L300 for its next-generation
supercomputer. A key component of its defense simulation program
(DAM), the supercomputer will have a computation capacity of
25-petaflops and 20 times lower electricity consumption than its
predecessor.
“The Seagate ClusterStor L300 storage solution provides the best
performance efficiency helping CEA-DAM to achieve the best value
while reducing floor tile space requirements and power consumption
cost,” said Didier Juvin, Simulation & HPC program director at
CEA–DAM. “Seagate’s successful track record of supporting Lustre
file system storage solutions provides the confidence to meet our
productivity critical storage goals.”
Seagate also partners with Cray to help bring the fastest HPC
storage file systems to life with the Cray Sonexion Scale-out
Lustre Storage System:
“Seagate has long been an important and valued partner for
Cray,” said Ryan Waite, SVP of product, Cray. “We are excited about
increased bandwidth offered by the new HPC drives and the Omni-Path
support, and we are looking forward to integrating this new
technology into our Sonexion product line.”
The ClusterStor family architecture is built on Seagate’s
field-proven enterprise-class storage design and Lustre, an open
source parallel file system typically used for high-performance
computing. Combining superior performance with ultra-efficient
scalability, the ClusterStor family includes ClusterStor L300,
ClusterStor A200, ClusterStor G200, ClusterStor 9000, ClusterStor
1500, ClusterStor Secure Data Appliance and Hadoop Workflow
Accelerator for ClusterStor’s architecture.
Seagate ClusterStor L300 will be available in calendar Q1 2016.
Learn more at Seagate’s booth 568 at the Supercomputing 2015 show
November 16-19 in Austin, Texas.
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