Cray Introduces ClusterStor E1000 Storage to Fuel Converged Workloads of the Exascale Era
30 Oktober 2019 - 2:00PM
Global supercomputer leader Cray, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise
company (NYSE: HPE), today unveiled its Cray ClusterStor E1000
system, an entirely new parallel storage platform for the Exascale
Era. ClusterStor E1000 addresses the explosive growth of data from
converged workloads and the need to access that data at
unprecedented speed, by offering an optimal balance of storage
performance, efficiency and scalability, effectively eliminating
job pipeline congestion caused by I/O bottlenecks. The
next-generation global file storage system has already been
selected by the US Department of Energy (DOE) for use at the
Argonne Leadership Computing Facility, Oak Ridge National
Laboratory and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, where the
first three US exascale supercomputers will be housed (respectively
Aurora, Frontier and El Capitan). With the introduction of the
ClusterStor E1000 storage system, Cray has completed the
re-architecture of its end-to-end infrastructure portfolio, which
encompasses Cray Shasta supercomputers, Cray Slingshot
interconnect, and the Cray software platform. With Cray’s
next-generation end-to-end supercomputing architecture, available
for any datacenter environment, customers around the world can
unleash the full potential of their data.
“To handle the massive growth in data that corporations
worldwide are dealing with in their digital transformations, a
completely new approach to storage is required,” said Peter Ungaro,
president and CEO of Cray, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company.
“Cray’s new storage platform is a comprehensive rethinking of what
high performance storage means for the Exascale Era. The
intelligent software and hardware design of ClusterStor E1000
orchestrates the data flow with the workflow – that’s something no
other solution on the market can do.”
As the external high performance storage system for the first
three U.S. exascale systems, Cray ClusterStor E1000 will total over
1.3 exabytes of storage for all three systems combined. The
National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) also
selected ClusterStor E1000, which will be the industry’s first all
NVMe parallel file system at a scale of 30 petabytes of usable
capacity.
“NERSC will deploy the new ClusterStor E1000 on Perlmutter as
our fast all flash storage tier, which will be capable of over four
terabytes per second write bandwidth. This architecture will
support our diverse workloads and research disciplines," said NERSC
Director Sudip Dosanjh. “Because this file system will be the first
all-NVMe file system deployed at a scale of 30 petabytes usable
capacity, extensive quantitative analysis was undertaken by NERSC
to determine the optimal architecture to support the workflows our
researchers and scientists use across biology, environment,
chemistry, nuclear physics, fusion energy, plasma physics and
computing research.”
Recognizing the data access challenges presented by the Exascale
Era, Cray’s ClusterStor E1000 enables organizations to achieve
their research missions and business objectives faster by
offering:
- Unprecedented storage performance: ClusterStor
E1000 systems can deliver up to 1.6 terabytes per second and up to
50 million I/O operations per second per rack – more than double
compared to other parallel storage systems in the market
today.
- Maximum performance efficiency: New
purpose-engineered end-to-end PCIe 4.0 storage controllers serve
the maximum performance of the underlying storage media to the
compute nodes and new intelligent Cray software, ClusterStor Data
Services, allows customers to align the data flow with their
specific workflow, meaning they can place the application data at
the right time on the right storage media (SSD pool or HDD pool) in
the file system.
- Massive scalability: An entry-level system
starts at 30 gigabytes per second and at less than 60 terabytes
usable capacity. Customers can start at the size dictated by their
current needs and scale as those needs grow, with maximum
architectural headroom for future growth. The ClusterStor E1000
storage system can connect to any HPC compute system that supports
high speed networks like 200 Gbps Cray Slingshot,
Infiniband EDR/HDR and 100/200 Gbps Ethernet.
“Cray’s Shasta architecture substantially expands the company’s
addressable market to include HPC simulation, AI, enterprise
analytics and cloud computing. ClusterStor E1000 is an integral
part of this strategy,” said Steve Conway, senior vice president of
research at Hyperion Research. “This new edition of the proven
ClusterStor solution is designed to enable leading enterprises to
consolidate their AI, HPC and High Performance Data Analysis
stacks, efficiently and easily. The fast-growing contingent of
enterprises that are adopting HPC now have the cost-effective
option to acquire a unified Cray Shasta-Slingshot-ClusterStor
infrastructure.”
Cray ClusterStor E1000 systems will be available starting in Q1
of 2020. For more information, please contact your authorized Cray
sales representative or visit www.cray.com.
About Cray Inc.Cray, a Hewlett Packard
Enterprise company, combines computation and creativity so
visionaries can keep asking questions that challenge the limits of
possibility. Drawing on more than 45 years of experience, Cray
develops the world’s most advanced supercomputers, pushing the
boundaries of performance, efficiency and scalability. Cray
continues to innovate today at the convergence of data and
discovery, offering a comprehensive portfolio of supercomputers,
high-performance storage, data analytics and artificial
intelligence solutions. Go to www.cray.com for more
information.
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