Comments on: Video: Panasas ActiveStor12 Aggregates 150GB/s http://insidehpc.com/2011/07/20/video-panasas-activestor12-aggreates-150gbs/ HPC News Without the Noise for Supercomputing Professionals | insideHPC Sun, 09 Jun 2013 01:54:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 By: Geoffrey Noer http://insidehpc.com/2011/07/20/video-panasas-activestor12-aggreates-150gbs/#comment-358344 Geoffrey Noer Thu, 21 Jul 2011 00:36:50 +0000 http://insidehpc.com/?p=21667#comment-358344 Thanks for your question. The intro text to the ESG report above looks like it got messed up somehow (I'll follow up on this separately). You're welcome to download the ESG report which is clear -- what they did was to validate the 1.5GB/s per shelf of ActiveStor 12 claim and prove that it does scale in a near-linear fashion. And the set up took under ten minutes. A 6PB, 10-rack, 100-shelf system capable of up to 150GB/s does require more time than ten minutes to set up although the additional time would mostly be in the physical racking of the units. Once physically set up, configuring and deploying a file system of the maximum performance is not substantially more difficult or time consuming than setting up the file system from a single shelf. Thanks for your question. The intro text to the ESG report above looks like it got messed up somehow (I’ll follow up on this separately). You’re welcome to download the ESG report which is clear — what they did was to validate the 1.5GB/s per shelf of ActiveStor 12 claim and prove that it does scale in a near-linear fashion. And the set up took under ten minutes.

A 6PB, 10-rack, 100-shelf system capable of up to 150GB/s does require more time than ten minutes to set up although the additional time would mostly be in the physical racking of the units. Once physically set up, configuring and deploying a file system of the maximum performance is not substantially more difficult or time consuming than setting up the file system from a single shelf.

]]> By: Jeff Darcy http://insidehpc.com/2011/07/20/video-panasas-activestor12-aggreates-150gbs/#comment-358298 Jeff Darcy Wed, 20 Jul 2011 18:40:23 +0000 http://insidehpc.com/?p=21667#comment-358298 I'm not easily impressed by GB/s numbers, but 150GB/s did get my attention. Does this really mean that ESG set up 100 units in minutes? If so, that's even more impressive than the I/O rates. I’m not easily impressed by GB/s numbers, but 150GB/s did get my attention. Does this really mean that ESG set up 100 units in minutes? If so, that’s even more impressive than the I/O rates.

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