HPC
The Rise of Flash Native Cache
Burst buffers are growing up—and growing out of the traditional realm of large-scale supercomputers, where they were devised primarily to solve the problems of failure at scale. …
DDN
HPC
One Small Shop, One Extreme HPC Storage Challenge
Being at the bleeding edge of computing in the life sciences does not always mean operating at extreme scale. …
Enterprise
On Premises Object Storage Mimics Big Public Clouds
Object storage is not a new concept, but this type of storage architecture is beginning to garner more attention from large organisations as they grapple with the difficulties of managing increasingly large volumes of unstructured data gathered from applications, social media, and a myriad other sources. …
HPC
What Sort of Burst Buffer Are You?
Burst buffer technology is closely associated with HPC applications and supercomputer sites as a means of ensuring that persistent storage, typically a parallel file system, does not become a bottleneck to overall performance, specifically where checkpoints and restarts are concerned. …
HPC
DDN Turns The Crank On “Wolfcreek” Storage
In the high performance computing arena, the stress is always on performance. …
Enterprise
Scaling All Flash Arrays Up And Out
The ubiquity of the Xeon server has been a boon for datacenters and makers of IT products alike, creating an ever more powerful on which to build compute, storage, and now networking or a mix of the three all in the same box. …
Compute
Future NCAR Supercomputer To Precipitate Climate Research
The first big supercomputing deal of the new year has been unveiled. …
Compute
Staying On The Cutting Edge At TACC
By definition, the national HPC labs are on the very bleeding edge of supercomputing technology, which is necessary given the scope and scale of the problems they are trying to solve through simulation and analysis and enabled by the largesse of their budgets. …
Enterprise
DDN Targets I/O Bottlenecks With Wolfcreek Arrays
The old adage in the modern datacenter is that compute is free, but data movement is very, very expensive. …
Enterprise
Doing The Math For Enterprise-Grade Object Storage
Object storage is not a new technology, but it is something that many enterprises are just starting to adopt as they follow the hyperscalers and HPC centers away from the overhead and scalability limits of traditional storage and its file systems. …