Sometime before the end of this year, it will be possible to get a petabyte of raw flash storage capacity that fits within a 3U rack enclosure, and if current trends persist, such a device will cost the same or less than a disk array equipped with reasonably capacious and zippy disk drives. …
As we described in detail in the previous section of this series on the state of Lustre and the roadmap for the parallel file system, beyond traditional HPC, the file system has some weaknesses for large-scale enterprise shops. …
DNA sequencing has been driving unprecedented discoveries in the life sciences since the emergence of next-generation sequencing (NGS) technologies ten years ago. …
While it is generally considered stable and reliable in large-scale environments, Lustre is not without a few key weaknesses, which the small vendor community supporting it are often first to point out. …
From processors, memory, network, and beyond, making architectural choices to support large-scale genomics research is often fed as much by trial and error as it is empirical knowledge about what will work for a demanding application set. …
The hyperconverged upstarts may have created the market for server-storage hybrids to support clusters of virtual machines, but it may be VMware that benefits most from this movement as customers look to simplify their infrastructure for supporting virtualized applications in their datacenters. …
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