Announcements from SC14

Below is a recap of announcements Seagate has made, today, timed with SC14 in New Orleans.

SEAGATE RECEIVES HONORS IN 2014 HPCWIRE READERS’ AND EDITORS’ CHOICE AWARDS– announcing that Seagate has been recognized in the annual HPCwire Readers’ and Editors’ Choice Awards, presented at the 2014 International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis (SC14). The list of winners were revealed at the HPCwire booth at the event, and on the HPCwire website, located at www.HPCwire.com. Seagate was recognized with the following honors:

  • Readers’/Editors’ Choice: Best HPC Storage Product or Technology: Seagate ClusterStor 9000
  • Readers’ Choice – Top 5 New Products or Technologies to Watch: Seagate Cloud Systems and Solutions/Cloud Storage
  • Readers’ Choice – Top 5 Vendors to Watch: Seagate

SEAGATE ANNOUNCES NEW CLUSTERSTOR ENGINEERED SOLUTION FOR LUSTRE AND CLUSTERSTOR SECURE DATA APPLIANCES – announcing the next generation of Seagate’s ClusterStor Engineered Solution for Lustre, offering up to 700% metadata performance improvements. The benefits of this new solution begin with improved metadata performance and scalability by implementing the Distributed Namespace (DNE) features in the Lustre 2.5 parallel file system. In addition to the Base Metadata Management Server capability, ClusterStor customers will now have the option to add up to sixteen Lustre Distributed Namespace metadata servers per single file system, providing client metadata performance improvement of up to 700% and expanded scalability support for up to 16 billion files per file system. This next generationSeagate ClusterStor Engineered Solution for Lustre is the only fully engineered solution integrating all aspects of hardware, software and full Lustre support for the latest 2.5 version of the Lustre parallel file system.

SEAGATE ANNOUNCES CLUSTERSTOR HADOOP WORKFLOW ACCELERATOR – announcing the availability of the ClusterStor Hadoop Workflow Accelerator a new solution providing the tools, services, and support for High Performance Computing (HPC) customers who need the best performing storage systems for Big Data Analytics. The Hadoop Workflow Accelerator is a set of Hadoop optimization tools, services and support that leverages and enhances the performance of ClusterStorTM, the market leading scale-out storage system, designed for Big Data analysis. Computationally intensive High Performance Data Analytics (HPDA) environments will benefit from significant reductions in data transfer time with the Hadoop Workflow Accelerator. This solution also includes the Hadoop on Lustre Connector, which allows both Hadoop and HPC Lustre clusters to use exactly the same data without having to move the data between file systems or storage devices.

Stay tuned-in to this blog , visit the dedicated HPC page on our website and / or follow us @SeagateB4B for updates as further announcements are made… 

2014-11-17T17:48:15+00:00

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