Seagate Offers Powerful New Lustre Choice for HPC Storage
April 05 2016 - 8:01AM
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Move to Incorporate Intel Platform Reflects
Seagate’s HPC Systems Focus and Momentum
Seagate Technology plc (NASDAQ: STX) today announced it will
incorporate Intel Enterprise Edition for Lustre® (IEEL), a big data
software platform, into its market-leading ClusterStor® storage
architecture for high-performance computing (HPC). The move will
strengthen Seagate’s HPC data storage product line and provide
customers with an additional choice of Lustre parallel file systems
to help drive advancements in the HPC and big data market.
Lustre software is a Linux-based, open-source parallel file
system at the heart of most HPC storage systems, and powers 40
percent of the world’s fastest supercomputers. Seagate incorporates
this software within the broader Seagate ClusterStor architecture.
To date, both Seagate and Intel have managed their own Lustre
distributions based on the Open SFS community release, with both
companies providing the benefit of additional levels of testing and
complementary software capabilities.
Through this new collaboration, Seagate will now adopt IEEL as
its baseline Lustre distribution, bringing together the
capabilities of the two leading Lustre distributions, development
and support teams. The Lustre community, in turn, will benefit from
two leading corporations collaborating to further advance the
Lustre community roadmap.
“This collaboration represents the leader in storage technology
teaming up with the leader in compute technology to drive
innovation in the data center,” said Ken Claffey, vice president
and general manager, Seagate HPC systems business. “Driving the
growth of HPC is a key focus for both companies. This focus
reflects how we see the data center of the future evolving — and
together, we can achieve more. Intel’s commitment to the
development of Lustre is outstanding. Adopting Intel’s distribution
will help harmonize efforts, and benefit our customers and the
community.”
Seagate will incorporate IEEL into ClusterStor L300, the
industry’s highest-performing Lustre software based storage
architecture. Released at Supercomputing 2015, the L300 delivers up
to 112 gigabytes-per-second (GB/sec) throughput per rack when
integrated with Seagate’s ClusterStor HPC drives, and includes
features to help maximize reliability and reduce data center
footprint, power and cooling costs while simplifying management and
service. ClusterStor L300 with IEEL will also support Intel’s
Omni-Path network built for Exascale computing.
“As Lustre maintains its leadership position on Top500
platforms, this agreement with Seagate will provide on-going
collaboration and innovation for the Lustre community from two
industry leaders,” said Brent Gorda, general manager of the High
Performance Data Division at Intel. “This will offer customers the
benefits of the Intel® Scalable System Framework using the parallel
file system of choice for HPC and data-intensive enterprise
environments.”
“Lustre has been very strong in academia and government for some
time. As Lustre expands its presence in the private sector, it will
continue to evolve to meet a range of commercial needs for HPC
simulation and advanced data analytics,” said Steve Conway, IDC
research vice president, High Performance Computing. “IDC expects
the collaboration between trusted vendors Intel and Seagate to
accelerate this evolution of Lustre software for use in industrial
production computing environments.”
“Enterprises looking to manage and derive value from their data
as it explodes in volume, velocity and variety are increasingly
turning to HPC, but they need solutions that are easy to manage and
can help them quickly address business challenges,” said Bill
Mannel, vice president and general manager, HPC and Big Data, HP
Servers. “This partnership between Seagate and Intel nicely
complements the HPC Alliance that HPE and Intel announced last
year, and will enable us to give our enterprise customers access to
the technologies and solutions — as well as the intellectual
property, portfolio services and engineering support — necessary
for evolving their compute infrastructure to capitalize on a
data-driven environment.”
“Cray is excited to see Seagate and Intel form an important
partnership on Lustre,” said Ryan Waite, Cray’s senior vice
president of products. “We believe this agreement will benefit both
our customers and the Lustre community, and we look forward to
seeing new capabilities and new opportunities for our storage
products as a result of this partnership.”
“With some of the largest and most demanding Lustre customers in
the world using our Bull supercomputers, Atos is a long-standing
Lustre developer and has always backed the best solutions to
improve the service delivered to our customers,” said Eric Eppe,
director of the Storage & Data Management product line at Atos.
“Having Seagate and Intel working together on improving a single
version of Lustre is going to greatly simplify the support and the
development of new features. This is great news and we are standing
behind Seagate and Intel to use their products in our solutions for
our customers.”
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