This week Seagate announced four supercomputing customers, which are using the Cray®Sonexion® 2000 system. Powered by Seagate, the system integrates all aspects of hardware, software and support for the latest 2.5 version of the Lustre® parallel file system. Key benefits of Lustre 2.5 include a client metadata performance improvement of up to 700 percent, as well as support for up to 16 billion files under a single file system. Lustre 2.5 also enables hierarchical storage management for easy data transfer between storage types and 1TB/sec performance — all critical features for organizations working to solve the world’s most complex data challenges.
Industry media took notice of the announcement. The excerpts, below, provide more detail into the importance of the partnership between Seagate and Cray…
- Infotech Lead: “The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), Saudi Arabia-based King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Petroleum Geo-Services, and the U.K.’s Met Office are the four Cray customers. These 4 customers in the government, weather, oil and gas, and university sectors will consume more than 120 petabytes of storage capacity.”
- Scientific Computing: “As the United Kingdom’s national weather service, the Met Office relies on supercomputers to help gather and process data for its weather and climate forecasts, which are recognized among the most accurate in the world. The Cray Sonexion 2000 system, Powered by Seagate, provides the storage necessary for the Met Office’s operational weather prediction and climate research, which spans 60 locations and includes more than 10 million daily weather observations used to create 3,000 tailored forecasts and briefings.”
- IT Wire: “At KAUST, the Cray Sonexion 2000 supports high performance computing and computational research aimed at solving the world’s biggest water, food, energy and environmental challenges.”
- Storage Review: “The new Cray XC40 supercomputer and Sonexion storage system will provide PGS with the advanced computational capabilities necessary to run highly complex seismic processing and imaging applications. Additionally, these applications include imaging algorithms for the PGS Triton survey, which is the most advanced seismic imaging survey ever conducted in the Gulf of Mexico.”
- insideHPC: “For the NNSA, Lustre 2.5 will enhance the agency’s Trinity supercomputer, which runs the largest and most demanding simulations of the United States’ nuclear stockpile across all three of the NNSA’s national laboratories, including Los Alamos National Laboratory, Sandia National Laboratories and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.”
- The Register: “Seagate supercomputer storage sales are rising, as Cray has won four supercomputer deals where the Sonexion 2000 storage is actually OEM’d ClusterStor arrays from Seagate’s acquired Xyratex business.”
Webinar Today (and Recorded for future playback)
Customers can learn more about Cray and Seagate on a webinar on April 23 at 10:00 am PT, which will be recorded for future playback. This webinar will help customers learn about some of the considerations when deploying Lustre — from system selection to networking considerations. Cray and Seagate will co-present the concept of workflow-driven storage for big data and supercomputing, discuss the Sonexion 2000, and also present customer use cases for Lustre across a range of industries.
