Long linked to discovery and innovation, high performance computing (HPC), was once reserved only for extreme computing environments. Today, HPC is making its way into commercial environments as organizations look for new ways to cope with data challenges and/or to monetize data assets. Although HPC was arguably the original big data use case, the convergence of HPC and big data analytics has made workloads more complex, demanding advanced performance and scalability.
As performance requirements in HPC and big data environments grew and as compute architectures evolved, the demands placed on traditional storage systems did not keep pace. The explosive growth of data created a demand for storage systems to deliver superior I/O performance. However, technical limitations in storage technology prevented traditional systems from being optimized for I/O throughput. Because all storage is not created equal, bottlenecks and scaling issues arose, which caused frustration for organizations that traditionally stitched together a storage system to support its HPC environment.
Enter ClusterStor by Seagate.
In breaking the I/O bottleneck, while bringing an appliance-like model to HPC storage, ClusterStor is the only fully integrated end-to-end engineered HPC storage system. Specifically designed to remove the complexities, bottlenecks and scaling issues found in traditional HPC storage deployments, ClusterStor provides maximum efficiency and performance for customers who will benefit from a highly optimized end-to-end solution.
To learn more about the alliance between Seagate and HP watch this video, from insideHPC, featuring Ken Claffey from Seagate and Bill Mannel from HP.
The addition of Seagate into HP’s partner ecosystem builds on a multi-year partnership and leverages solutions that address the most complex computing workloads solving today’s toughest HPC and big data challenges. As a result of this partnership, organizations will benefit from optimal solutions stemming from the data driven innovation that HP Apollo and Seagate ClusterStor represent.
To learn more about Seagate’s ClusterStor Parallel Storage System, visit our web site.
