Cray Announces Scalable Flash Storage Solution for Lustre Workloads
June 19 2018 - 9:00AM
Global supercomputer leader Cray Inc. (Nasdaq:CRAY) today announced
the ClusterStor™ L300F Lustre®-based scalable flash storage
solution, designed for applications that need high-performance
scratch storage to quickly store and retrieve intermediate results.
The L300F system will enable users such as engineers,
researchers and scientists to dramatically reduce the runtime of
their applications, allowing jobs to reliably complete within their
required schedules, supporting more iterations and faster time to
insight. Supplementing Cray’s ClusterStor portfolio with an
all-flash storage option, the ClusterStor L300F system will
integrate with and complement the existing L300 and L300N models to
provide a comprehensive storage architecture. It will allow
customers to address performance bottlenecks without needlessly
overprovisioning HDD storage capacity, creating a cost-competitive
solution for improved application runtime.
“Flash is poised to become an essential technology in every HPC
storage solution,” said Jeff Janukowicz, IDC’s research vice
president, Solid State Drives and Enabling Technologies. “It has
the unique role of satisfying the high-performance appetite of
artificial intelligence applications even while helping customers
optimize their storage budget for big data. With the ClusterStor
L300F, Cray has positioned itself to be at the leading edge of the
next generation of HPC storage solutions.”
The ClusterStor L300F solution will simplify storage management
for storage administrators, allowing them to stand up a
high-performance flash pool within their existing Lustre file
systems using existing tools and skills. This eliminates the need
for product-unique training or to administer a separate file
system. Using ClusterStor Manager, administrators can reduce the
learning curve and accelerate time to proficiency, thereby
improving ROI. When coupled with Cray’s exclusive monitoring
application, Cray® View for ClusterStor™, administrators get an
end-to-end view of Lustre jobs, network status and storage system
performance. Cray View for ClusterStor provides visibility into job
runtime variability, event correlation and trend analysis, and
offers custom alerts based on any selected metric.
The flash ClusterStor L300F system will eliminate the I/O
latency of hard drives and allows system architects to dynamically
increase the performance SLAs to users for IOPS while lowering the
effective cost ($/IOP) of providing the service. It will offer
balanced performance, ensuring that IOPS performance is
consistently delivered throughout the system. Like all ClusterStor
options, the L300F model will contain both object storage servers
and object storage targets, and it will scale linearly and with no
performance loss. Moreover, users can be assured their data is well
protected, as ClusterStor L300F storage will deliver redundancy
throughout the storage system and features high availability.
“At Cray we are commited to continue making ClusterStor the most
capable HPC storage platform in the industry,” stated John Howarth,
vice president of storage at Cray. “The L300F is another step in
addressing critical customer requirements in the demanding HPC
storage market.”
The ClusterStor L300F model joins the ClusterStor L300 and
ClusterStor L300N storage systems in Cray’s portfolio. It’s a
flexible storage system that will offer heterogeneous building
blocks and support for new Lustre 2.11 functionality. Packing 24
SSDs into a 2U enclosure is ideal for customers running large
volumes of small I/O workloads, and the L300F solution takes Cray’s
storage offerings for HPC environments to a new level. The existing
L300 model is an all-HDD Lustre solution, well suited for
environments using applications with large, sequential I/O
workloads. The L300N model, by contrast, is a hybrid SSD/HDD
solution with flash-accelerated NXD software that redirects I/O to
the appropriate storage medium, delivering cost-effective,
consistent performance on mixed I/O workloads while shielding the
application, file system and users from complexity through
transparent flash acceleration.
Cray will be at ISC 2018. Visit Cray at booth
E-921 to learn more about how the ClusterStor
L300F storage system delivers next-generation performance in the
datacenter.
Cray ClusterStor L300N The Cray
ClusterStor L300N system 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
technology scales performance linearly with the size of the
system.
Cray View for ClusterStor Cray View for
ClusterStor software tracks job performance on Lustre file systems,
and it 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 provides administrators with the tools to
resolve problems faster.
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years of experience, Cray develops the world’s most advanced
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and scalability. Cray continues to innovate today at the
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