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About S2A Turn-key Storage Solutions
Harnessing 10 years of high-end storage expertise, we specify and
deliver a pre-built, optimized storage solution for your shared storage
and data management requirements.
- Remove the guesswork associated with designing the right solution
- Deploy proven, reliable systems faster
Our Professional Services Team provides:
- System Consultation and Optimization Services
- System pre-installation and installation services
- Standard and Enterprise Support Services
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Home  Products S2A Storage Solutions S2A HPC Storage
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S2A High Performance Cluster Storage Solution (HPCSS) |
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- RAID 6 with zero performance penalty
- Scale performance beyond 100GB/s
- Read and write at the same speed
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S2A's open platform enables unbounded client scalability and wire-speed data transport over high-performance computing networks.
The evolution of cluster computing and the emergence of scaleable parallel applications present challenges for storage managers needing to grow a common storage infrastructure to service an ever-growing amount of high-performance computers and simulation data within a common volume.
The S2A HPCSS leverages commodity Ethernet as well as high-performance RDMA cluster networks to minimize the impact of both defensive and interactive cluster I/O and deduce computational application time. Used in environments requiring high speed data access from a common volume across one or many cluster computers – the S2A HPCSS is an ideal application accelerator for large-scale, high performance computing and supercomputing applications.
This solution is a highly scalable business tool that provides Linux-based applications near-wire-speed data transfer capabilities and unbounded capacity. Built upon best-of-breed open source technology, DataDirect Networks has carefully engineered the S2A HPCSS into a turnkey solution designed to reduce the complexity of deploying high performance computing storage and to scale with your evolving application requirements.
S2A HPCSS combines the high performance computing capabilities of the S2A9550 storage system with the scalable, high-performance object-based Lustre® file system. Provided along with high-bandwidth commodity storage servers, S2A HPCSS is a turnkey storage offering which is a proven standard for the world’s most demanding supercomputers and cluster computers.
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- Scalable performance from 2-100GB/s+
- Accommodates petabytes of information in a single namespace
- Up to 2.5GB/s per storage building block
- Completely fault-tolerant architecture
- Wire-Speed transport over RDMA networks, over 1GB/s per connection
- SATAssure technology enables cost-effective capacity scaling
- Read and write at the same speed
- No performance loss in the event of disk, drive enclosure or disk channel failure
- S2A Quality of Service enables broad file striping across many servers
View Detailed Specs
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- Seismic data acquisition and interpretation
- Scalable ASIC simulation and ASIC mask creation
- Market data analysis; Monte Carlo simulation
- High-performance parallel computing
- Computational physics, chemistry, biology
- Weather modeling
- Weapons simulation
- Surveillance
- High-end digital intermediate applications
- and many more…
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Scalable, High Performance Storage for Clustered Computers
High performance computingHPC) centers worldwide (including 40 of the Top100 SuperComputers) are using S2A technology to aggregate and serve data. HPCSS serves scalable clusters and collections of clusters within a single namespace.
Reduce Cost of Information Ownership
Optimize costs by consolidating multiple storage instances into a single storage volume. Capable of scaling beyond 100GB/s in performance and to petabytes of single namespace capacity, the S2A HPCSS eliminates the complexity of managing multiple storage volumes and eliminated duplicated data sets across separate islands of storage. DataDirect Networks further simplifies the management of high performance parallel storage by providing system provisioning and management tools.
For more information on how S2A HPCSS can help your organization, please contact us .
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