Added Lustre

As a founding member of OpenSFS, DDN was the first storage vendor to support Lustre and sells and supports more Lustre environments than any other storage vendor in the world. Expanding on this experience, the DDN EXAScaler™ 7000 (ES7K) leverages Lustre 2.5 pre-installed and fully optimized for DDN’s high-density storage appliances. ES7K delivers enterprise-level features including simple management and monitoring interfaces, and HPC-level performance that optimizes both mixed and parallel I/O performance.

DDN’s ES7K delivers reliability and support combined with open source innovations to deliver the fastest and highest-density Lustre appliance on the market. Built specifically for organizations with data-intensive, high-performance storage requirements, the ES7K provides a simple, cost-effective way to leverage the benefits of DDN’s award-winning high-performance storage architecture with open-source Lustre file systems.

As with all the DDN EXAScaler appliances, the ES7K offers unique DDN-developed Lustre features that are fully backed by Intel support. Simple to install, configure and manage, the ES7K scales out to deliver massive storage performance density with a broad feature set and the flexibility of open source.

DDN ES7K advantages over competitive alternatives include:
· 3x faster performance: Maximizes ROI by delivering the highest performance per rack unit for HPC applications.
· More than 2x greater storage density: Starts at tens of terabytes and scales to nearly a petabyte of capacity by leveraging the highest density per rack unit for optimal efficiency.
· The Lowest TCO: Starts with the smallest configuration and scales non-disruptively with additional ES7K building blocks.
· Simplest Deployment and Management: Configuration and deployment optimization features, integration with drive-to-file system monitoring, and metadata convergence options make the ES7K the ideal platform for migrating an application or an entire workflow to Lustre.

“DDN is a strong member of the Lustre community and is valued for its contributions in the areas of performance and management of Lustre-based storage systems. With years of experience in designing, installing and supporting Lustre-based storage, DDN offers a high performing appliance built on Intel® Enterprise Edition for Lustre® leveraging Lustre 2.5,” said Brent Gorda, GM of Intel’s High Performance Data Division. “Lustre’s momentum in the market is strong and accelerating. In the high performance technical computing arena, Lustre has been widely embraced by national labs and universities, and now we are seeing traditional industries like research, oil and gas, manufacturing, and financial services actively adopt Lustre. Intel is excited to see DDN expand its Lustre offering with the new ES7K appliance, and we look forward to continuing our strong collaboration in the area of performance-driven solutions.”

"DDN is the primary storage vendor for some of the highest-scaling, most performance-critical HPC installations in the scientific and commercial markets. Now DDN has used that expertise to create an entry-level Lustre appliance aimed at making it easy and affordable for more organizations to migrate to parallel file systems," said Steve Conway, IDC research vice president, high performance computing and data analysis. "The new ES7K appliance should appeal to users with simulation workloads and to the growing contingent of commercial firms turning to HPC for advanced analytics."