New Cray Storage Solutions Address Key Customer Needs for Improved Productivity and Unparalleled Data Access
November 13 2017 - 3:01AM
Global supercomputer leader Cray Inc. (Nasdaq:CRAY) today announced
new high performance computing (HPC) storage solutions
including Cray View for ClusterStor™ – providing customers
with dramatically improved job productivity; Cray® ClusterStor™
L300N – a flash-based acceleration solution; and Cray DataWarp™ for
the Cray XC50™ supercomputer – exponentially reducing data access
time.
The new storage product offerings address the top pain points
for HPC customers. New features include:
- Cray ClusterStor L300N with NXD flash accelerator software
which provides up to 10X improvement in storage performance.
- Cray DataWarp with transparent caching, which provides the
ability to accelerate application performance with no change to the
end user experience.
- Cray View for ClusterStor, which features the ability to trace
and track the performance of Lustre providing per job and system
views.
“Cray is focused on advancing HPC storage with solutions that
are directly targeted at the most pressing user requirements,” said
Fred Kohout, Cray’s senior vice president of products and chief
marketing officer. “Cray and ClusterStor resellers are making it
easier for customers to manage their storage, extract the highest
performance levels from their storage, and accelerate
time-to-discovery with the fastest data access.” “Cray is a pioneer
in HPC storage systems and for decades has designed HPC
systems that balance leading-edge compute and storage
capabilities,” said Steve Conway, senior vice president of
research at Hyperion Research. “This experience positions
Cray well to benefit from the strong growth we forecast for the
global HPC storage market.”
Cray ClusterStor L300NThe Cray ClusterStor
L300N with NXD flash accelerator software optimizes multiple mixed
workloads on the same storage platform, eliminating data access
bottlenecks through flash-based small file acceleration.
Organizations will be able to automatically support multiple
applications that require a diverse range of storage access
patterns, such as small block and large block, without making any
changes to applications or processes. ClusterStor NXD scales
performance linearly with the size of the system.
Cray DataWarp EnhancementsCray DataWarp is
software-defined storage that manages flash storage on the Cray
Aries network. The new transparent caching feature will help
the user – a domain scientist or an engineer – realize all the
performance benefits of flash storage, while maintaining their
Lustre experience. The applications mount the directories of the
parallel file system yet access data from flash, resulting in the
fastest, simplest application acceleration solution. As a result,
DataWarp transparent caching will provide both ease of use and
efficiency. The DataWarp transparent caching feature will be
available for both Cray XC40™ and Cray XC50 systems.
The new Cray flash storage blade for the Cray XC50 supercomputer
expands the application acceleration solution for Cray DataWarp
users. The Cray XC50 flash storage blade’s flexible configuration
allows for customizing to individual capacity and price/performance
needs.
Cray View for ClusterStorCray View for
ClusterStor software tracks job performance on Lustre file systems
and enables the correlation of system events that cause job
performance issues using streaming telemetry with customizable
visualization enabling real-time and historical analysis. Cray View
for ClusterStor will provide administrators with the tools to
resolve problems faster.
AvailabilityCray ClusterStor L300N, Cray View
for ClusterStor, and DataWarp transparent caching software
solutions are planned to be generally available in early 2018. Cray
DataWarp for the Cray XC50 supercomputer is available now. For more
information on the Cray ClusterStor L300N, Cray DataWarp for the
Cray XC50 supercomputer, and the Cray View for ClusterStor software
solution please visit the Cray storage page on our website. To
view a list of authorized resellers click here.
About Cray Inc.Global supercomputing leader
Cray Inc. (Nasdaq:CRAY) provides innovative systems and solutions
enabling scientists and engineers in industry, academia and
government to meet existing and future simulation and analytics
challenges. Leveraging more than 40 years of experience in
developing and servicing the world’s most advanced supercomputers,
Cray offers a comprehensive portfolio of supercomputers and big
data storage and analytics solutions delivering unrivaled
performance, efficiency and scalability. Cray’s Adaptive
Supercomputing vision is focused on delivering innovative
next-generation products that integrate diverse processing
technologies into a unified architecture, allowing customers to
meet the market’s continued demand for realized performance. Go to
www.cray.com for more information.
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related to the availability and performance of the Cray ClusterStor
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ClusterStor, and DataWarp transparent caching software solutions
are not generally available when expected or at all or do not
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