In this presentation, Ken Claffey from Xyratex describes the company's new ClusterStor 1500 storage appliance. Designed for scale-out HPC storage solutions, the ClusterStor 1500 delivers HPC performance and efficiency with help from the Lustre file system. Departments within larger organizations or medium-sized enterprises today, especially in the commercial, academic and government sectors, represent an underserved market. They need high-performance and scalable storage solutions that are cost-efficient, easy to deploy and manage and reliable even under heavy workloads,” said Ken Claffey, senior vice president of the ClusterStor business at Xyratex. “Growth in this market segment is being driven by the increasing adoption of simulation applications in a wide range of industries from car and aircraft design to chemical interactions and financial modeling. Traditional enterprise storage systems are simply not designed to meet the performance needs of these applications, so we engineered and built the affordable and modular ClusterStor 1500 to bring the performance power of Lustre to this underserved and growing market in the way that only ClusterStor can.” With the ability to scale performance from 1.25GB/s to 110GB/s and raw capacity from 42TB to 7.3PB, ClusterStor 1500 is purpose-built to satisfy data intensive department level compute cluster needs, ClusterStor 1500 is designed to provide best in class scale-out storage for middle tier high performance computing environments. The ClusterStor 1500 solution features scale-out storage building blocks, the Lustre parallel filesystem and a comprehensive management platform that eliminates the guesswork usually associated with building and optimizing your own HPC storage solution. Watch the presentation video: http://inside-bigdata.com/slidecast-clusterstor-1500-departmental-scale-out-storage-for-hpc/

1. New Product Launch
ClusterStor™ 1500
Departmental Scale-Out Storage for HPC
April 29, 2013

2. “Missing Middle”
Widely Distributed Industrial Users – Many Years Underserved
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Department Level
Critical Mass
Exploding Now!
Middle Market
Shifting from
Vendor Push to
Strong User Pull
*National Center for Manufacturing
Sciences

3. Previous Barriers
• Lack of affordable HPC
technology for mid market
• Too hard to build your own using
piece parts
• Lack of skills and expertise
• No time, need results now
• Lack of scale, proprietary lock in,
too complex
Wide Open
Growth
• Affordable engineered HPC
solution for mid market
• Pre-built, optimized and highly
efficient appliance
• Easy to use with integrated
solution management
• Out of box ready to use
• Best of large HPC, packaged for
departmental users
ClusterStor 1500 Resolves Departmental
Capabilities Gap
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4. Affordable Lustre® Appliance Opportunity
Lustre Expands Beyond the Top 100
NFS struggles to keep up with departmental 32 node and above sweet spot
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IDC HPC Storage Market
Segmentation Revenue 2011
$0 $200 $400 $600 $800 $1,000 $1,200 $1,400 $1,600 $1,800
Workgroup
Departmental
Divisional
Supercomputer
Workgroup Departmental Divisional Supercomputer
$Ms $460 $1,322 $473 $1,657
Up to 16 Nodes
16 to 128 Nodes
> 512 Nodes
128 to 512 Nodes
NFS
Affordable
Easy to Use
Lustre
Appliance
Opportunity-
Lustre
Dominates
Maximum
Scale-Out-
TOP 100

5. ClusterStor 1500 Features & Benefits
Departmental Scale-Out Storage for HPC and Big Data
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No compromise best-in-class
affordable departmental
storage
Superior ROI
Works out of the box
with ease of use
Fully integrated solution
visibility and management
Proactive support and
professional services
Investment protection

6. Purpose Built to Satisfy Department
Level Needs
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ClusterStor 1500 value for
departmental HPC
– Cost-efficient
– Easy to deploy and manage
– Works out of the box
– Reliable even under heavy workloads
– Highly scalable in performance and
storage capacity to match evolving
compute cluster needs

7. Thank You
Ken_Claffey@xyratex.com