HPC Industry
Hyper Computing Demands Fastest Storage
High Performance Computing (HPC) environments and scientific application environments are arguably the most demanding compute environments on the planet. The compute power and the ensuing storage required are massive in scale, capacity, and performance requirements. These types of systems are designed to solve very complex and interlaced equations and theorems as proposed and presented by multi-disciplinary science and engineering environments. These intense compute environments are often located in research institutes like the San Diego Supercomputer Center or federal institutes. One such federal institute, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), has to perform very complex modeling for weather patterns and predictions. Given that these environments are often reliant upon grants and allocated budgets as opposed to generating a form of revenue for themselves, they are fundamentally in conflict with themselves as they require the highest performance levels and scalability available in the market, yet they need to do this as cost effectively as possible. RamSan® products by Texas Memory Systems are ideal scalable solutions to storage performance requirements against the backdrop of a cost concern.
The RamSan® line of solid state disks (SSDs) delivers outstanding, cost-effective performance with:
- Latency of less than 15 microseconds
- IOPS (Input/Outputs per Second) that scale well beyond 1 million IOPS
- Up to 10GB/s bandwidth
- Capacity-dense systems of up to 10TB
- A focus on Green power initiatives
As the collective knowledge of scientific research and federal institute environments continues to grow, the questions presented and the models that need to be worked through become more complex and interdependent. Therefore, High Performance Computing installations have to be able to compute, store, and push enormous amounts of data to get to the answers that move the world forward. Texas Memory Systems and the award winning RamSan® product line is the only choice to deliver The World’s Fastest Storage® at the right cost.
Using the RamSan-630 with QDR IB and a parallel file system permits HPC workloads with exceptionally large working sets to be effectively handled. These applications differ from the traditional HPC workload as there is no way to partition the data into chunks that can be sent to each node to process in local memory and periodically recombine the results from every node. Each node to process in local memory and periodically recombine the results from every node. Each node needs access to the entire dataset at every step in the process. The ability to have every CPU in the cluster close to all of the data is a unique advantage of the high performances computing architecture with RamSan® storage. The RamSan-630’s high bandwidth, low latency, and ability to handle random I/O enhance HPC architectures to tackle new problems.
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High Performance Computing
