Seagate Engineers Tiered Archive System for HPC Storage
November 17 2015 - 8:02AM
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ClusterStor A200 Increases Data Availability;
Reduces Costs by 50% for HPC Data Archiving
Seagate Technology plc (NASDAQ: STX) today introduced
ClusterStor™ A200, a first-of-its-kind tiered archive storage
system for high performance computing (HPC). The A200 helps reduce
storage and operational costs by up to 50 percent compared to
tier-one storage platforms.
The A200 was designed to complement the rest of Seagate’s
ClusterStor family of scale-out storage systems. It allows
customers to non-disruptively migrate designated data off of the
performance-optimized, primary storage tiers while keeping it
online for fast retrieval. This avoids a common problem in shared
HPC environments where the organization is forced to choose between
having all of the data available to make the best analysis versus
the time required to retrieve data from tape. Performance of the
primary storage is often improved by migrating data and freeing up
space for more efficient data layout. The pre-configured
ClusterStor A200 solution includes an automatic policy-driven
hierarchical storage management (HSM) system and near limitless
scale-out capacity.
“The A200 is designed to be the perfect complement to our high
performance ClusterStor Lustre® and IBM Spectrum Scale™ engineered
systems,” said Ken Claffey, vice president and general manager,
Seagate HPC systems business. “It balances performance while also
delivering a system that is optimized for the lowest capex and opex
for active archive applications. Many critical HPC systems need to
go back and analyze valuable data that’s already been archived, but
our customers want these large archives to be online with massive
data sets available instantly. ClusterStor A200 is a purpose-built
solution to help enable storage tiering and end-to-end workflow in
HPC environments.”
The ClusterStor A200 was engineered to meet customers’ most
demanding HPC needs in fields such as weather, life sciences, oil
and gas, financial services, pharmaceuticals, and geospatial
intelligence.
The A200 consists of up to seven scalable storage units per rack
with additional storage units and racks easily added to the storage
pool, and a highly available ClusterStor management unit. The A200
system also includes a comprehensive management system with a
single, easy-to-use administrator interface. The A200 system
implements the 3rd generation ClusterStor erasure coding to provide
unparalleled data and disaster protection with up to 11 nines of
durability. This new and enhanced erasure code is network-based
allowing it to use the resources of the entire system to achieve
extremely fast rebuilds of failed drives, improving availability
while maximizing the amount of useable storage delivered to the
customer’s applications. To further enhance the durability of data
in the A200 system, the ClusterStor erasure code uses a unique
mechanism to prioritize the most critical data elements to rebuild,
substantially improving the time required to return the system to
maximum data protection.
The ClusterStor family architecture is built on Seagate’s
field-proven enterprise-class storage platforms and high
performance parallel file systems such as Lustre® and IBM Spectrum
Scale™. Combining superior performance with ultra-efficient
scalability, the ClusterStor family includes ClusterStor A200,
ClusterStor L300, ClusterStor G200, ClusterStor 9000, ClusterStor
1500, ClusterStor Secure Data Appliance and Hadoop Workflow
Accelerator for ClusterStor’s architecture.
Seagate ClusterStor A200 will be available in calendar Q1 2016.
Learn more at Seagate’s booth 568 at the Supercomputing 2015 show
November 16-19 in Austin, TX.
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