HPC
Los Alamos Taps Seagate To Put Compute On Spinning Rust
High performance computing workloads simulating all manner of things can produce a veritable mountain of data that has to be sifted through. …
Seagate
Store
Why Dropbox’s Exascale Strategy Is Long-Term, On-Prem Disk
The various life-extension technologies that will keep disk at the forefront of some of the largest storage installations are working–and keeping disk’s largest consumers, like Dropbox, around for long haul…
When it comes to exascale storage capacity, the national labs have nothing on Dropbox. …
Enterprise
The Ironic – And Fleeting – Volatility In NVM Storage
There is no question any longer that flash memory has found its place – in fact, many places – in the datacenter, even though the debate is still raging about when or if solid state memory will eventually replace disk drives in all datacenters of the world. …
Enterprise
High Sticking With Flash Memory
Making the transition from disk storage to flash and other non-volatile media is perhaps more difficult for the makers of storage than it is for customers. …
HPC
French Nuclear Agency Bolstering Supercomputing I/O Might
The French Atomic Energy agency (CEA) is one of the leading centers for nuclear weapons and energy research in Europe, and as such, is one of the top sources in Europe to watch for extreme scale computing trends. …
Enterprise
What Stands in the Way of Enterprise Lustre Adoption?
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. …