EMC VNX7500 Achieves Industry-leading Performance Density with Lustre—Delivers
HPC Community Enterprise Class Five-9’s Availability and High Density
SC11—SEATTLE - November 10, 2011 At SC11, the international
conference on HPC, networking storage and analysis, EMC Corporation (NYSE:EMC),
today announced that it set a performance density record with Lustre—delivering
2GB/sec per rack U. Using the industry standard XDD benchmark, Terascala, the
leader in Fast Data storage management, validated that the single VNX7500
delivers up to 8 GB/s read and 5.3 GB/s write sustained performance on a 4U dual
storage processor with the Lustre file system. The benchmark results validate
the EMC VNX7500 and its ability to deliver the industry's most reliable—with
five-9's availability—and powerful unified storage system complete with global
support, delivering the raw performance required in HPC environments—with "no
compromise".
The EMC
VNX7500 is powered by the latest multi-core Intel Xeon processor 5600 series
and delivers HPC customers the option to leverage enterprise Flash drives and
the FAST Suite, where Flash can be efficiently used as both a high performance
storage tier and as a caching tier. Additionally, a dual VNX7500/single rack
solution that can deliver up to 16GB/s sustained read performance and has the
flexibility to support up to 1.6PBs—is ideal for customers looking for a high
density solution, or with large amounts of data. The sheer throughput that the
VNX7500 delivers to HPC customers using Lustre is ideal for environments where a
high, single stream of performance is required—most often in universities and
laboratories, core IT applications for, life sciences and supercomputing
environments.
EMC will be demonstrating a proof-of-concept that includes the VNX7500 and a
Terascala Integrated Storage Information System (TISIS™) appliance in a Lustre
environment in the EMC Isilon booth (#2609) and Intel booth (#2121) at SC11.
EMC Quote
Eric Herzog, Vice President, Product Marketing and Management, EMC
Unified Storage Division
"Lustre is driving new achievements and capabilities in the HPC community.
EMC extends its offerings in the HPC community with our VNX unified storage
solution, which Terascala has validated with record setting benchmark results.
The VNX, optimized for HPC processing infrastructure, delivers customers
enterprise-class five-9's availability, global support, and the sheer
performance necessary to enable HPC customers with the industry's most powerful
storage for Lustre environments. With the combined breadth of EMC's VNX and
Isilon products, EMC delivers the broadest set of solutions spanning the needs
of the HPC community."
Terascala Quote
Rick Friedman, Vice President, Product Management at Terascala
"With the VNX, we achieved the highest XDD benchmark throughput of any
platform tested with the Terascala Integrated Storage Information System
(TISIS™) in a Lustre environment. In HPC environments—where performance is
everything—the VNX7500 delivered.”
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