NEW ORLEANS, Nov. 15, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- SC10 -- LSI
Corporation (NYSE: LSI) today introduced the Engenio® 2600-HD
high-density storage system, purpose-built to meet the demanding
data requirements of high-performance computing (HPC) file systems.
The system offers exceptional performance and a highly scalable,
dense architecture that is designed to help HPC organizations
maximize productivity and achieve a quicker time to results, while
minimizing data center floor space and overall energy
expenditures.
The Engenio 2600-HD system consists of two LSI™ 6Gb/s SAS-based
controllers integrated into the new Engenio DE6600 high-density SAS
drive enclosure. The system is capable of sustaining up to 4GB/s of
throughput and housing up to 60 SAS drives in a 4U space.
The company also introduced a new family of StorageStak
solutions, which provide LSI storage system customers with
reference configurations designed to address specific HPC
requirements and challenges. One of the first solution
configurations in the StorageStak family is the DenseStak™
solution. The DenseStak solution consists of up to ten 2600-HD
systems configured in a standard 40U Electronics Industry Alliance
(EIA) rack to provide users with industry-leading performance of up
to 40GB/s sustained throughput and scalability to 600 drives. Using
three terabyte SAS drives, the DenseStak solution can scale to 1.8
petabytes of raw storage capacity. The DenseStak solution delivers
the industry's highest throughput per rack and can reduce power
consumption by as much as 23 percent and data center floor space by
up to 60 percent compared to the previous-generation product.
"The Lustre and General Parallel File System implementations
found in today's HPC market demand scalability in throughput and
capacity without sacrificing data access," said Addison Snell, CEO, Intersect360 Research. "At
the same time, HPC organizations need systems that can maximize the
available data center floor space. The Engenio 2600-HD is designed
for high performance and scalability in a dense architecture and is
well positioned to meet the needs of a wide range of HPC
customers."
Continuous data access and protection
The 2600-HD system provides high-availability features and
extensive online administration and maintenance capabilities that
are designed to ensure continuous access to data. Stored data is
protected with enhanced features such as proactive drive health
monitoring, hardware-assisted RAID 6 and persistent cache
backup.
The high-density storage enclosure also features front-loading
drive drawers that enhance serviceability and data availability,
keeping drives online while the drawer is open. Controlled drawer
movement allows each 12-drive drawer to be extended and individual
drives to be replaced without affecting the operation of other
drives, overall system performance or access to data.
"In HPC environments, storage solutions are judged by the rate
at which data can be accessed, processed and distributed," said
Steve Hochberg, senior director, HPC
segment, LSI. "Performance is no longer the only criteria for
meeting these demands as new challenges are emerging that make
system scalability, reliability and density per footprint key
elements of the selection process. The Engenio 2600-HD system
delivers a high-performance, cost-effective storage solution that
raises the bar on meeting these new requirements."
The Engenio 2600-HD benefits from more than thirty years of LSI
design knowledge and storage expertise. With well over 200
petabytes deployed in HPC environments and more than 500,000
systems shipped across a wide range of workloads and market
segments, LSI Engenio storage systems are trusted by the world's
leading OEMs to deliver superior performance and reliability that
meets customers' escalating data management requirements.
A demonstration of the Engenio 2600-HD storage system will be
available at the SC10 conference (Booth #2946) taking place
November 15-18 at the Ernest N.
Morial Convention Center in New
Orleans.
More information about the LSI HPC business is available at
www.lsi.com/hpc.
Partner Quotes
"RAID Inc. is very excited about the storage performance and
scalability that the new Engenio 2600-HD system offers our GPFS
customers," said Bob Picardi, CEO,
RAID Inc. "Delivering 4GB/s throughput in a system of this compact
size and price, with the ability to scale to 40GB/s in one rack,
makes the Engenio 2600-HD highly competitive with the large, dense
monolithic systems that are twice the cost." (www.raidinc.com)
"The long-term strategic relationship between LSI and SGI has
yielded world-class storage solutions and benchmark results for the
highly competitive midrange high-performance market," said
Jose Reinoso, vice president of
Storage, SGI. "With the introduction of the new Engenio 2600-HD,
which will be integrated into the SGI InfiniteStorage 5000 product
line, we look forward to continuing this tradition and offering HPC
customers a system featuring aggressive price performance coupled
with enterprise-class reliability." (www.sgi.com)
"Terascala's large-scale Lustre appliance is all about
price/performance, capacity and reliability in an easy to deploy
and maintain solution. The new Engenio 2600-HD system fits right
into that equation," said Steve
Butler, CEO, Terascala, Inc. "When you combine the
capacity-per-footprint and reliability of the Engenio 2600-HD with
the superior throughput that it has demonstrated in our labs, the
system becomes a critical component of the complete Terascala
solution that addresses the complexity and processing demands of
today's high performance computing applications."
(www.terascala.com)
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