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CERN Computing Seminar
High Performance Network Storage
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Europe/Zurich
500/1-001 - Main Auditorium (CERN)
Description
DataDirect Networks' Silicon Storage Appliance (S2A) is a family of intelligent storage controllers which provides servers, workstation clusters and standalone computers in a heterogeneous environment with easy, scalable and high bandwidth access to shared data. With built-in hardware RAID, a massive cache, storage and LUN virtualization, parallel Fibre Channel port technology, and support for up to hundreds of terabytes of storage, DataDirect's S2As provide cost-effective and reliable support for the high bandwidth and large storage requirements of demanding high performance computing and rich media networks.
The company's SwiftCluster file system uses the open-source Lustre file system, based on Linux and developed by Lawrence Livermore, to provide all 1,000 users at the lab with a single view into their storage. DataDirect will supply Lawrence Livermore with 16 of its SAN appliances, totaling 300 Tbytes, to tie into 64 Linux boxes, creating the world's fastest and cheapest Linux cluster.
SwiftCluster is a technological breakthrough which combines DataDirect's S2A8000 parallel block level storage controller, its scalable serial PCI I/O node interface, Direct Memory Access optimized protocol layer, all tying into a highly efficient parallel file system, to create a blueprint for the future of clustering. With SwiftCluster, customers will be able to build very efficient computer clusters scaling to tens of teraflops, while benefiting from Object Based Disk (OBD) file system technology.
The modularity of the S2A8000 enables various front access interfaces, Fibre Channel, Serial PCI, Infiniband and iSCSI while supporting high performance (over GB's/s per unit) storage access to very large centralized pool of Fibre or SATA drives (100's of TB's to PB's).
DataDirect has designed, deployed and supported world class storage networks for customers such as Lawrence Livermore, NASA, Sandia, NCSA, Time Warner, Sony and Pinnacle. These systems range in performance from less than 1GB/sec to 10GB/sec+, in capacity from less than 5TB to 200TB+, and support heterogeneous operating systems, file systems and compute platforms.
BIOGRAPHY
Mr. Paul Bloch, President, Co-Founder Paul Bloch, co-founder of DataDirect Networks, brings over 15 years of experience with start-up and management businesses including serving as the president of Personal Writer, Inc., and MegaDrive Systems, Inc. Previously, Mr. Bloch enjoyed a successful tenure as a director for Hi-Tech Consulting Group, a European management consulting firm based in the United States. Mr. Bloch graduated with an Engineering degree from National Superior School of Telecommunications (ENST) in France and a Masters in Electrical Engineering from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech).
The company's SwiftCluster file system uses the open-source Lustre file system, based on Linux and developed by Lawrence Livermore, to provide all 1,000 users at the lab with a single view into their storage. DataDirect will supply Lawrence Livermore with 16 of its SAN appliances, totaling 300 Tbytes, to tie into 64 Linux boxes, creating the world's fastest and cheapest Linux cluster.
SwiftCluster is a technological breakthrough which combines DataDirect's S2A8000 parallel block level storage controller, its scalable serial PCI I/O node interface, Direct Memory Access optimized protocol layer, all tying into a highly efficient parallel file system, to create a blueprint for the future of clustering. With SwiftCluster, customers will be able to build very efficient computer clusters scaling to tens of teraflops, while benefiting from Object Based Disk (OBD) file system technology.
The modularity of the S2A8000 enables various front access interfaces, Fibre Channel, Serial PCI, Infiniband and iSCSI while supporting high performance (over GB's/s per unit) storage access to very large centralized pool of Fibre or SATA drives (100's of TB's to PB's).
DataDirect has designed, deployed and supported world class storage networks for customers such as Lawrence Livermore, NASA, Sandia, NCSA, Time Warner, Sony and Pinnacle. These systems range in performance from less than 1GB/sec to 10GB/sec+, in capacity from less than 5TB to 200TB+, and support heterogeneous operating systems, file systems and compute platforms.
BIOGRAPHY
Mr. Paul Bloch, President, Co-Founder Paul Bloch, co-founder of DataDirect Networks, brings over 15 years of experience with start-up and management businesses including serving as the president of Personal Writer, Inc., and MegaDrive Systems, Inc. Previously, Mr. Bloch enjoyed a successful tenure as a director for Hi-Tech Consulting Group, a European management consulting firm based in the United States. Mr. Bloch graduated with an Engineering degree from National Superior School of Telecommunications (ENST) in France and a Masters in Electrical Engineering from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech).