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Sandia Purchases Max-T's
InfinARRAY Storage Solution
Maximum Throughput Inc., a developer and provider of high-performance,
enterprise-class networked storage solutions, announced today that Sandia
National Laboratories has purchased an InfinARRAY single-image distributed
filesystem for its Vplant supercomputing cluster.
Sandia's scalable cluster (Vplant) is a Dell/Myrinet/Linux cluster of 330
dual
2.0 GHz and 2.4 GHz Xeon processing nodes. It is used primarily for
visualization, but its significant compute performance is also employed
elsewhere at Sandia. Vplant ranked #32 (with 1272 Gflops) on the Top500 list
of supercomputers, as published at the Supercomputing Conference in November
2002. Vplant is a distributed-memory, parallel processing cluster, whose
architecture calls for complete scalability of both hardware and software.
Vplant is designed to be able to grow physically in discontinuous,
heterogeneous steps over time. InfinARRAY - which leverages commodity hardware
and provides massive scalability.
InfinARRAY is a global, single-image, distributed filesystem designed for
high-performance computing clusters. It provides a unified view of an entire
storage pool, improving management of storage resources. InfinARRAY can be
deployed in three ways: as a massively scalable SAN filesystem, as an NFS
gateway to a consolidated storage pool, or as a hybrid of the two.
InfinARRAY's low latency communication protocol gives it the ability to
serve
as both a SAN filesystem and an NFS gateway, where compute nodes in a cluster
communicate directly with high-performance storage, while less
compute-intensive clients have access to the same storage via file
servers.
All clients share a unified view of the entire filesystem. Unlike any other
product on the market, InfinARRAY is massively scalable in terms of both the
amount of physical storage that it can manage, and the rate at which it can
move data into and out of that storage.
"We are developing Vplant to enable us to visualize the output from very
large, complex simulations, which are run on some of the largest computers in
the world. We will need to increase Vplant's capabilities even further in
order to handle the output from supercomputers that are coming on line in the
next couple of years. The ability to scale both capacity and storage I/O was a
key consideration in our selection of Max-T's InfinARRAY," said Milton J.
Clauser, Ph.D, Project Leader for Vplant Development. "After considerable
testing, and comparison with competing products, InfinARRAY stood out with the
performance and scalability we sought."
"We are strongly committed to providing the supercomputing community with
the
world's most scalable filesystem," said Giovanni Tagliamonti, CEO at Max-T.
"We could not have asked for a better endorsement of our technology than
Sandia selecting InfinARRAY for Vplant.
"The storage community has debated for quite some time how and where SAN
and
NAS technologies will come together," said Tagliamonti. "InfinARRAY
demonstrates how this convergence will manifest itself."
About Sandia National Laboratories
Sandia is a multiprogram laboratory operated by Sandia Corporation, a
Lockheed
Martin Company, for the United States Department of Energy under contract
DE-AC04-94AL85000. With main facilities in Albuquerque, N.M., and Livermore,
Calif., Sandia has major research and development responsibilities in national
security, energy and environmental technologies, and economic
competitiveness.
About Maximum Throughput
Maximum Throughput Inc. is a networked storage developer whose products
deliver SAN level performance over TCP/IP. The company's unique solutions
provide many times the storage bandwidth of other NAS and SAN products, using
software that runs on industry standard hardware. Maximum Throughput's
products offer unparalleled performance, capacity management, and capacity
availability, and have the lowest total cost-of- ownership in their class.
Web site: www.max-t.com
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