Today Seagate announced that it is combining its Cloud Storage, High Performance Computing, and Electronic Solutions groups to further align the company’s full breadth of enterprise storage hardware capabilities.
Video: KAUST Prepares for Shaheen II Supercomputer
May 2, 2015 by
In this video, Mootaz Elnozahy from KAUST discusses the arrival of the Shaheen II supercomputer. Some 25 times more powerful than its predecessor, Shaheen II is a Cray XC40 system with DataWarp burst buffer technology, a Cray Sonexion 2000 storage system, and a Cray Tiered Adaptive Storage (TAS) system.
Video: Understanding Hadoop Performance on Lustre
April 27, 2015 by
“In this talk, Seagate presents details on its efforts and achievements around improving Hadoop performance on Lustre including a summary on why and how HDFS and Lustre are different and how those differences affect Hadoop performance on Lustre compared to HDFS, Hadoop ecosystem benchmarks and best practices on HDFS and Lustre, Seagate’s open-source efforts to enhance performance of Lustre within “diskless” compute nodes involving core Hadoop source code modification (and the unexpected results), and general takeaways ways on running Hadoop on Lustre more rapidly.”
Video: Lustre Network (LNET) Router Configuration and Tuning
April 22, 2015 by
“n this session, Seagate covers configuration guidelines and tuning of LNET Routing from InfiniBand to Ethernet using Lustre 2.1 through 2.6 server/clients as well demonstrating performance results by means of a synthetic benchmark called IOR. In addition, this presentation includes the topic of LNET Router failure and recovery during I/O as well as what environments can expect during these failure events.”
Video: New and Improved Lustre Performance Monitoring Tool
April 20, 2015 by
“With the current Lustre Performance Monitoring Tool (LMT) no longer in active development, and the current version incompatible with DNE based Lustre 2.5 deployments, there is a critical need for a new set of tools delivering the same basic Lustre performance metrics with the added ability to work compatibly with contemporary releases of Lustre.”
Video: Seagate Lustre Update
April 16, 2015 by
In this video from LUG 2015 in Denver, Peter Bojanic from Seagate presents: Seagate Lustre Update. “Seagate powers four of the five 1 TB/sec filesystems in the world today.”
Seagate ClusterStor Secure Data Appliance
February 24, 2015 by
The Seagate ClusterStor Secure Data Appliance (SDA) is the HPC industry’s first scale-out secure storage system officially ICD-503 certified to consolidate multiple previously isolated systems, maintain data security, enforce security access controls, segregate data at different security levels, and provide audit trails, all in a single scale-out file system with proven linear performance and storage scalability.
Lustre Metadata Performance and Solutions from Seagate
February 12, 2015 by
“Alongside the increasingly high demands of streaming bandwidth in HPC storage solutions, there is a growing need for higher levels of metadata performance for various applications and workloads. The Lustre parallel file system provides a distributed namespace, divided across multiple metadata servers, that allows the metadata throughput to scale with increasing servers. This presentation addresses meeting the increasing requirements for high performance metadata in Lustre environments with the ultimate aim of reducing the time to results and improving overall efficiency.”
Seagate Prepares 55 Petabyte File System for German Climatology Department
December 17, 2014 by
In this video from SC14, Torben Kling-Petersen from Seagate describes an upcoming deployment of a 55 Petabyte Lustre file system in Hamburg, Germany. The ClusterStor deployment will be the most energy-efficient file system of its kind in the world upon installation.
Video: Seagate Steps up to HPC
December 16, 2014 by
In this video from SC14, Ken Claffey from Seagate describes how the company is doubling down on high performance computing with its ClusterStor technology. Full Transcript: Ken Claffey: Hey Rich. Good to see you again. insideHPC: Oh, yeah. It’s always a pleasure. You Xyratex guys are like family. Ken Claffey: Another year rolls around, it’s […]
