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
HP offers Lustre-based storage options through a relationship with Data Direct Networks (DDN). Lustre-based storage is optimized for large single files with scalable bandwidth, sequential throughput. These are generally closely coupled with an HPC cluster, sharing the cluster’s high performance interconnect, often InfiniBand.
Some cases for which Lustre is optimized include:
- Large single files with scalable bandwidth, sequential throughput
- Maximum throughput per server (native IB protocol , direct I/O)
- Requires storage optimized for large sequential I/O
- Storage optimized for large sequential I/O
- Where parallel applications require many distributed processes writing to a single, large file. Examples include MPI 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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