Chatsworth, Calif. — August 4, 2025 — DDN announced it has set a new benchmark for performance and efficiency with its AI400X3 storage appliance in the latest MLPerf Storage v2.0 benchmarks. Powered by DDN’s EXAScaler parallel file system, the AI400X3 is engineered to accelerate AI workloads. For large enterprises, this means faster time-to-insight, lower operational costs, […]
Backblaze Launches B2 Overdrive for AI/ML and HPC Workloads
April 29, 2025 by
SAN MATEO, Calif. — Cloud storage company Backblaze, Inc. (Nasdaq: BLZE) today announced Backblaze B2 Overdrive, a cloud storage solution delivering terabit-speed throughput starting at $15 per terabyte. Built for organizations pushing the limits of data throughput performance, B2 Overdrive eliminates the all-too-common compromise between performance and economics that has constrained data-intensive workloads. “Today’s AI, […]
Panasas Appoints Ken Claffey CEO, Shea to Remain as COO
September 6, 2023 by
SAN JOSE, September 6, 2023 – High performance data storage vendor Panasas has announced that Ken Claffey, former SVP/GM of Enterprise Systems at Seage Technology, has been named CEO. Claffey replaces Tom Shea, who will remain on the Panasas executive leadership team as chief operating officer.
HPC and AI Workloads Drive Storage System Design
August 7, 2023 by
Many organizations are tied to outdated storage systems that cannot meet HPC and AI workload needs. Designing high‑throughput, highly scalable HPC storage systems require expert planning and configuration. The Dell Validated Designs for HPC Storage solution offers a way to quickly upgrade antiquated storage….
Panasas Survey: Specialty Knowledge Top Challenge for Managing High-Performance Storage
February 22, 2023 by
SAN JOSE, February 22, 2023 – High performance storage vendor Panasas today announced results of a global survey on the challenges enterprises face with storage infrastructure for high-performance applications. Lack of specialty knowledge coupled with high resource needs was the most frequently ranked challenge (over 50 percent of respondents). The findings result from an independent survey by Vanson […]
Rice Team Wins $1.5 NSF Award for Biomolecule-based Data Storage
August 19, 2022 by
Rice University synthetic biologists have won a $1.5 million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to modify living cells to act as memory-storage devices, the university announced today. NSF issued the award for research by principal investigator Jonathan Silberg, the Stewart Memorial Professor of Biochemistry, and his colleagues to make the equivalent of read-write-erase […]
@HPCpodcast: HPC Storage Rock Star Gary Grider Talks How We Got Here and Where We’re Going
April 22, 2022 by
http://orionx.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/021@HPCpodcas_Storage-with-Gary-Grider_20220420.mp3 Shahin and I are in violent agreement: if you’re interested in high performance storage, if major milestone in the development of HPC storage technology over the last 30-plus years interests you, if you want a peek at future forward leaps in HPC storage technology, then this is an @HPCpodcast episode for you. Our special […]
Spend Less on HPC/AI Storage (and more on CPU/GPU compute)
July 19, 2021 by
[SPONSORED POST] In this whitepaper courtesy of HPE, you’ll learn about the three approaches that can help you to feed your CPU- and GPU-accelerated compute nodes without I/O bottlenecks while creating efficiencies in Gartner’s Run category. As the market share leader in HPC servers, HPE saw the convergence of classic modeling and simulation with AI methods such as machine learning and deep learning coming and now offers you a new portfolio of parallel HPC/AI storage systems that are purpose engineered to address all of the previously mentioned challenges—in a cost-effective way.
HPE Reference Architecture for SAS 9.4 on HPE Superdome Flex 280 and HPE Primera Storage
June 7, 2021 by
HPE Reference Architecture for SAS 9.4 on HPE Superdome Flex 280 and HPE Primera Storage
June 2, 2021 by Leave a Comment
This Reference Architecture highlights the key findings and demonstrated scalability when running SAS® 9.4 using the Mixed Analytics Workload running on HPE Superdome Flex 280 Server and HPE Primera Storage. These results demonstrate that the combination of the HPE Superdome Flex 280 Server and HPE Primera Storage with SAS 9.4 delivers up to 20GB/s of sustained throughput, up to a 2x performance improvement from the previous server and storage generation testing.
