“One of the benefits of our ClusterStor modular architecture is its flexibility – we can deliver a very comparable performance with either Lustre or Spectrum Scale on the same extensible architecture. There are two key reasons for that balance of performance and flexibility. Firstly, we have a unique scale out storage architecture with a distributed processing model, meaning you’re not tied to a centralized legacy RAID controller hardware. Secondly, there is no proprietary hardware or RAID firmware in the system. All the software runs in a standard Linux environment, so we are able to take our software stack and it is really agnostic as to whether we are running with Lustre or SS.”
Seagate Prepares 55 Petabyte File System for German Climatology Department
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
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 […]
Seagate Updates ClusterStor Engineered Solutions for Lustre and Hadoop
Seagate announced at SC14 a new version of its ClusterStor Engineered Solution for Lustre that adds new features to the Lustre parallel data storage file system used in HPC environments and the ClusterStor Hadoop Workflow Accelerator, a set of Hadoop tools, services and support for HPC environments.
Exascale: A Long Look at Lustre Limitations
In this video from the LAD’14 Conference in Reims, Nathan Rutman from Seagate presents: Exascale: A Long Look at Lustre Limitations.
This Week in HPC: Intel Rolls Haswell into Server Chips and Seagate Folds ClusterStor into Corporate Strategy
In this episode of This Week in HPC, Michael Feldman and Addison Snell from Intersect360 Research discuss the broad industry impact of the new Haswell server chips for HPC. After that, they take a look Seagate’s integration of ClustStor into the company’s enterprise strategy.
Seagate Announces CSS Group and ClusterStor 9000 Storage
Available today, the Seagate ClusterStor 9000 solution, is a fully integrated Lustre-based scale-out solution designed for HPC and Big Data customers.
This Week in HPC: Major IT Players Explore Alternate Architectures and Interest Accelerates for FPGAs and Quantum Computing
In this episode of This Week in HPC, Michael Feldman and Addison Snell from Intersect360 Research look at FPGAs for high performance computing. After that, they discuss the latest news on quantum computing.
Cray Rolls Out Tiered Lustre Storage
Today Cray announced the launch of a new data management and protection solution for Lustre file systems.
Xyratex Acquired – What Does the Future Hold for Lustre?
“At this point, I think it actually really makes sense for the community as a whole to fork Lustre, rename it OpenSFS, remove all the branding IP, and make it GPL/MIT/BSD licensed. Have OpenSFS own the copyrights/IP, have vendors sign up to support it. Sort of like the Linux foundation. And what CentOS does with RedHat.”