HPC
Will DeltaFS Become the File System of Exascale’s Future?
Many have tried, but few parallel file system upstarts have challenge the dominance of Lustre, and to a lesser extent these days, GPFS/Spectrum Scale. …
GPFS
Store
IBM Views Enterprise Storage Through Hybrid Cloud Glasses
For the past couple of decades, IBM’s Spectrum Scale – formerly known as General Parallel File System –has had a solid standing as one of the two go-to file systems for HPC. …
Store
Blazing The Trail For Exascale Storage
When it comes to advanced technologies at the high end of compute, networking, and storage, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory is one of the world’s pathfinding testbeds. …
Store
Divide Deepens Between HPC and Enterprise Storage
The more things change, the more they stay the same in HPC storage. …
AI
Fishing For Insight Into The Ocean Economy With HPC And AI
Historically and traditionally, academic supercomputing centers have been very open about the architecture and setup of their HPC systems, and it makes sense if you think about it. …
Enterprise
A New Architecture For NVM-Express
NVM-Express is the latest hot thing in storage, with server and storage array vendors big and small making a mad dash to bring the protocol into their products and get an advantage in what promises to be a fast-growing market. …
Enterprise
Intel Shuts Down Lustre File System Business
Chip maker Intel is getting out of the business of trying to make money with a commercially supported release of the high-end Lustre parallel file system. …
HPC
One Small Shop, One Extreme HPC Storage Challenge
Being at the bleeding edge of computing in the life sciences does not always mean operating at extreme scale. …
HPC
DDN Turns The Crank On “Wolfcreek” Storage
In the high performance computing arena, the stress is always on performance. …
Control
ARM, Open Source Feed Buzz Around HPC File System
There is but a small cadre of scalable parallel file systems and while the list might be small, weighing the relative benefits of each option against the available resources can be a challenge, as Sven Breuner and his HPC admin colleagues at the Fraunhofer Institute realized in 2004. …