Storage
HP offers customers choice and flexibility in their storage solutions
including HP StorageWorks X9000 Network Storage Systems and Linux-based Lustre
technologies for scalable storage.
The HP X9000 Network Storage Systems offer customers flexibility for a
variety of environments and configurations. The X9000 systems provide scalable
aggregate bandwidth across many files, with scalable capacity, native Linux and
Windows clients, NFS and CIFS export allowing access by a large number of
loosely coupled systems including desktops & servers outside the datacenter. The
HP X9000 storage systems are best for the broad SCI market and HPC including
Media, FSI, Bioinformatics, GeoScience, Hosting/Web, and Cloud.
For more information on HP X9000 storage options visit
www.hp.com/go/x9000
Lustre based storage is optimized for large single files with scalable
bandwidth, sequential throughput. Some examples that Lustre is optimized for
are:
- Many writes to a single file, with maximum bandwidth per single large file
(striped across servers)
- Maximum throughput per server (native IB protocol, direct I/O)
- Maximum single-stream performance
- Storage optimized for large sequential I/O
Lustre is best used for distributed, parallel applications in traditional HPC
applications where closely coupled solutions sharing the cluster’s high
performance interconnect are required.
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