Panasas ® California Institute of Technology Success StoryPanasas
The Center for Advanced Computing Research (CACR) at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) operates large-scale computing facilities for numerous campus
research groups who have big data design and discovery requirements. CACR has a full-time, 25-person staff with expertise in data-intensive scientific discovery, physicsbased simulation, scientific software engineering, visualization, and novel computer
architectures. It provides technical assistance such as porting code, designing and specifying resources, and advanced IT integration.
The combination of scalable ANSYS design and simulation software and HPC clusters with Panasas parallel storage has demonstrated new and significant productivity advantages for workflows in computer aided engineering (CAE) applications. The combination provides
dramatic cost-performance improvements and speeds time-to-results for engineering simulation solutions on commodity HPC clusters
Data Sheet for Panasas ActiveStor 16.
Hybrid Scale-out NAS Appliance Accelerates Time-to-Resultsfor Technical Research and Enterprise Workloads
Panasas® ActiveStor® with PanFS® 6.0 is the only no-compromise hybrid scale-out NAS solution
designed to deliver performance, reliability and manageability at scale. With flash technology
speeding small file and metadata performance, ActiveStor provides significantly improved
file system responsiveness while accelerating time-to-results. Based on a fifth-generation
storage blade architecture and the Panasas PanFS storage operating system, ActiveStor offers
an attractive low total cost of ownership for the energy, finance, government, life sciences,
manufacturing, media, and university research markets.
Dell PowerEdge R930 with Oracle: The benefits of upgrading to PCIe storage us...Principled Technologies
Strong server performance is essential to companies running Oracle Database. The new Dell PowerEdge R930 provided strong performance with 22 SAS HDDs, but this performance improved when we replaced all of the drives with SAS solid-state drives. It improved further when we used a mix of HDDs and SDDs along with SanDisk DAS Cache. We saw the greatest performance boost when we used eight PCIe SSDs with SanDisk DAS Cache. The upgraded configuration of the Dell PowerEdge R930 with PCIe SSDs and SanDisk DAS Cache delivered 11.1 times the database performance of the all-HDD configuration. This makes the new Dell PowerEdge R930 a powerful platform with scalable storage options that can potentially translate into significant service improvements for your business and your customers, which helps in maximizing ROI.
Panasas ® California Institute of Technology Success StoryPanasas
The Center for Advanced Computing Research (CACR) at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) operates large-scale computing facilities for numerous campus
research groups who have big data design and discovery requirements. CACR has a full-time, 25-person staff with expertise in data-intensive scientific discovery, physicsbased simulation, scientific software engineering, visualization, and novel computer
architectures. It provides technical assistance such as porting code, designing and specifying resources, and advanced IT integration.
The combination of scalable ANSYS design and simulation software and HPC clusters with Panasas parallel storage has demonstrated new and significant productivity advantages for workflows in computer aided engineering (CAE) applications. The combination provides
dramatic cost-performance improvements and speeds time-to-results for engineering simulation solutions on commodity HPC clusters
Data Sheet for Panasas ActiveStor 16.
Hybrid Scale-out NAS Appliance Accelerates Time-to-Resultsfor Technical Research and Enterprise Workloads
Panasas® ActiveStor® with PanFS® 6.0 is the only no-compromise hybrid scale-out NAS solution
designed to deliver performance, reliability and manageability at scale. With flash technology
speeding small file and metadata performance, ActiveStor provides significantly improved
file system responsiveness while accelerating time-to-results. Based on a fifth-generation
storage blade architecture and the Panasas PanFS storage operating system, ActiveStor offers
an attractive low total cost of ownership for the energy, finance, government, life sciences,
manufacturing, media, and university research markets.
Dell PowerEdge R930 with Oracle: The benefits of upgrading to PCIe storage us...Principled Technologies
Strong server performance is essential to companies running Oracle Database. The new Dell PowerEdge R930 provided strong performance with 22 SAS HDDs, but this performance improved when we replaced all of the drives with SAS solid-state drives. It improved further when we used a mix of HDDs and SDDs along with SanDisk DAS Cache. We saw the greatest performance boost when we used eight PCIe SSDs with SanDisk DAS Cache. The upgraded configuration of the Dell PowerEdge R930 with PCIe SSDs and SanDisk DAS Cache delivered 11.1 times the database performance of the all-HDD configuration. This makes the new Dell PowerEdge R930 a powerful platform with scalable storage options that can potentially translate into significant service improvements for your business and your customers, which helps in maximizing ROI.
Life science research organizations are
re-evaluating their storage strategies in the
face of rapidly growing volumes of critically
important data. The increased use of
advanced gene sequencing and medical
imaging applications are taxing legacy
storage infrastructures. Life sciences
applications are driving the need for fast,
extremely scalable, easy-to-manage, and
affordable high-performance storage
systems that handle intense technical
workloads while accelerating time-to-results
NetApp Data clustered ONTAP offers a unified scale-out storage solution for an adaptable, always-on storage infrastructure to accommodate today's virtualized infrastructures. For service providers, each customer maps to a separate Vserver on a storage cluster; this is the key to our multi-tenant environment and enables many of our key capabilities. Come and hear this intelligent, immortal, and infinite storage technology from NetApp.
Cost and performance comparison for OpenStack compute and storage infrastructurePrincipled Technologies
To be competitive in the cloud, businesses need more efficient hardware and software for their OpenStack environment and solutions that can pool physical resources efficiently for consumption and management through OpenStack. Software-defined storage has made it easier to create storage resource pools that spread across your datacenter, but external or separate distributed storage systems are still a challenge for many. VMware vSphere with Virtual SAN converges storage resources with the hypervisor, which can allow for management of an entire infrastructure through a single vCenter Server, increase performance, save space, and reduce costs.
Both solutions used the same twelve drive bays per storage node for virtual disk storage, however the tiered design of VMware Virtual SAN allowed for greater performance in our tests. We used a mix of two SSDs and 10 rotational drives for the VMware Virtual SAN solution, while we used 12 rotational drives for the Red Hat Storage Server solution behind a battery-backed RAID controller, the Red Hat recommended approach.
In our testing, the VMware vSphere with Virtual SAN solution performed better than the Red Hat Storage solution in both real world and raw performance testing by providing 53 percent more database OPS and 159 percent more IOPS. In addition, the vSphere with Virtual SAN solution can occupy less datacenter space, which can result in lower costs associated with density. A three-year cost projection for the two solutions showed that VMware vSphere with Virtual SAN could save your business up to 26 percent in hardware and software costs when compared to the Red Hat Storage solution we tested.
Data is being generated at rates never before encountered. The explosion of data threatens to consume all of our IT resources: People, budget, power, cooling and data center floor space. Are your systems coping with your data now? Will they continue to deliver as the stress on data centers increases and IT budgets dwindle?
Imagine if you could be ahead of the data explosion by being proactive about your storage instead of reactive. Now you can be, with NetApp's approach to the designs and deployment of storage systems. With it, you can take advantage of NetApp's latest storage enhancements and take control of your storage. This will allow you to focus on gathering more insights from your data and deliver more value to your business.
NetApp's most advanced storage solutions are NetApp Virtualization & scale out. By taking control of your existing storage platform with either solution, you get:
• Immortal Storage system
• Infinite scalability
• Best possible ROI from existing environment
Panasas ActiveStor 11 and 12: Parallel NAS Appliance for HPC WorkloadsPanasas
Panasas® ActiveStor™ is the world’s fastest parallel storage system, bringing plugand-
play simplicity to large scale storage deployments. Based on a fourth-generation
storage blade architecture and the Panasas® PanFS™ storage operating system,
ActiveStor delivers unmatched parallel file system performance in addition to the
scalability, manageability, reliability, and value required by demanding technical
computing organizations in the bioscience, energy, finance, government, manufacturing
and other research sectors.
Bringing NetApp Data ONTAP & Apache CloudStack TogetherDavid La Motta
CloudStack Collaboration Conference - Denver 2014
Details on the integration between NetApp and CloudStack, and key features that make ONTAP the best operating system for the cloud.
Accelerating Design in Manufacturing EnvironmentsPanasas
Panasas parallel storage brings HPC storage features to Computer Aided Engineering (CAE) applications in manufacturing environments. The combination of scalable application software and commodity compute
clusters that leverage Panasas® ActiveStor® scale-out NAS technology has resulted in
significant productivity advantages for CAE workflows. The benefits range from compelling cost/performance improvements
to time-saving, high-fidelity simulation.
From limited Hadoop compute capacity to increased data scientist efficiencyAlluxio, Inc.
Alluxio Tech Talk
Oct 17, 2019
Speaker:
Alex Ma, Alluxio
Want to leverage your existing investments in Hadoop with your data on-premise and still benefit from the elasticity of the cloud?
Like other Hadoop users, you most likely experience very large and busy Hadoop clusters, particularly when it comes to compute capacity. Bursting HDFS data to the cloud can bring challenges – network latency impacts performance, copying data via DistCP means maintaining duplicate data, and you may have to make application changes to accomodate the use of S3.
“Zero-copy” hybrid bursting with Alluxio keeps your data on-prem and syncs data to compute in the cloud so you can expand compute capacity, particularly for ephemeral Spark jobs.
Vidhyalive offers netapp training(Instructor led live online training) with real-world scenarios.Learn how to configure the technologies of the NetApp. Please visit Here for further details: http://www.vidhyalive.com/product/netapp-training/
Slides: Start Small, Grow Big with a Unified Scale-Out InfrastructureNetApp
Slides from the on-demand webcast (showcasing customer Cirrity). Learn how NetApp® clustered Data ONTAP® 8.2 can help you scale multiple workloads on a single unified storage platform with support for multiple protocols such as SMB 3.0 and pNFS, and scale the performance of all of your applications, whether on SAN or NAS infrastructure.
Hitachi Unified Storage and Hitachi NAS Platform Performance Optimization wit...Hitachi Vantara
Hitachi Unified Storage VM (HUS VM) and Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform (VSP) flash technology helps increase performance and decrease total disk quantity and while lowering power, cooling and space costs. Attend this WebTech to learn more about how to optimize Hitachi Unified Storage and Hitachi NAS Platform performance using flash acceleration, SSD storage, and other technologies.
Spectrum Scale - Diversified analytic solution based on various storage servi...Wei Gong
This slides describe diversified analytic solutions based on Spectrum Scale with various deployment mode, such as storage rich-server, share storage, IBM DeepFlash 150 and Elastic Storage Server. It deep dives several advanced data management features and solutions for BD&A workload derived from Spectrum Scale.
Elastic storage in the cloud session 5224 final v2BradDesAulniers2
Learn about the IBM Spectrum Scale offering (formerly GPFS) and how it can create an elastic storage solution in the cloud. Whether you're storing gigabytes or petabytes, Spectrum Scale can provide you with a high-performance storage solution.
Presented at IBM InterConnect 2015
[NetApp] Simplified HA:DR Using Storage SolutionsPerforce
Perforce administrators have several choices for HA/DR solutions depending on RTO/RPO objectives. Using an effective storage solution such as NetApp filers simplifies HA/DR planning in several ways. In this session we'll look at using a NetApp filer for more reliable HA in the event of storage or application failure and simpler DR replication. In the latter case, deduplication and SnapMirror technology can significantly reduce the amount of data replicated to a remote site.
Life science research organizations are
re-evaluating their storage strategies in the
face of rapidly growing volumes of critically
important data. The increased use of
advanced gene sequencing and medical
imaging applications are taxing legacy
storage infrastructures. Life sciences
applications are driving the need for fast,
extremely scalable, easy-to-manage, and
affordable high-performance storage
systems that handle intense technical
workloads while accelerating time-to-results
NetApp Data clustered ONTAP offers a unified scale-out storage solution for an adaptable, always-on storage infrastructure to accommodate today's virtualized infrastructures. For service providers, each customer maps to a separate Vserver on a storage cluster; this is the key to our multi-tenant environment and enables many of our key capabilities. Come and hear this intelligent, immortal, and infinite storage technology from NetApp.
Cost and performance comparison for OpenStack compute and storage infrastructurePrincipled Technologies
To be competitive in the cloud, businesses need more efficient hardware and software for their OpenStack environment and solutions that can pool physical resources efficiently for consumption and management through OpenStack. Software-defined storage has made it easier to create storage resource pools that spread across your datacenter, but external or separate distributed storage systems are still a challenge for many. VMware vSphere with Virtual SAN converges storage resources with the hypervisor, which can allow for management of an entire infrastructure through a single vCenter Server, increase performance, save space, and reduce costs.
Both solutions used the same twelve drive bays per storage node for virtual disk storage, however the tiered design of VMware Virtual SAN allowed for greater performance in our tests. We used a mix of two SSDs and 10 rotational drives for the VMware Virtual SAN solution, while we used 12 rotational drives for the Red Hat Storage Server solution behind a battery-backed RAID controller, the Red Hat recommended approach.
In our testing, the VMware vSphere with Virtual SAN solution performed better than the Red Hat Storage solution in both real world and raw performance testing by providing 53 percent more database OPS and 159 percent more IOPS. In addition, the vSphere with Virtual SAN solution can occupy less datacenter space, which can result in lower costs associated with density. A three-year cost projection for the two solutions showed that VMware vSphere with Virtual SAN could save your business up to 26 percent in hardware and software costs when compared to the Red Hat Storage solution we tested.
Data is being generated at rates never before encountered. The explosion of data threatens to consume all of our IT resources: People, budget, power, cooling and data center floor space. Are your systems coping with your data now? Will they continue to deliver as the stress on data centers increases and IT budgets dwindle?
Imagine if you could be ahead of the data explosion by being proactive about your storage instead of reactive. Now you can be, with NetApp's approach to the designs and deployment of storage systems. With it, you can take advantage of NetApp's latest storage enhancements and take control of your storage. This will allow you to focus on gathering more insights from your data and deliver more value to your business.
NetApp's most advanced storage solutions are NetApp Virtualization & scale out. By taking control of your existing storage platform with either solution, you get:
• Immortal Storage system
• Infinite scalability
• Best possible ROI from existing environment
Panasas ActiveStor 11 and 12: Parallel NAS Appliance for HPC WorkloadsPanasas
Panasas® ActiveStor™ is the world’s fastest parallel storage system, bringing plugand-
play simplicity to large scale storage deployments. Based on a fourth-generation
storage blade architecture and the Panasas® PanFS™ storage operating system,
ActiveStor delivers unmatched parallel file system performance in addition to the
scalability, manageability, reliability, and value required by demanding technical
computing organizations in the bioscience, energy, finance, government, manufacturing
and other research sectors.
Bringing NetApp Data ONTAP & Apache CloudStack TogetherDavid La Motta
CloudStack Collaboration Conference - Denver 2014
Details on the integration between NetApp and CloudStack, and key features that make ONTAP the best operating system for the cloud.
Accelerating Design in Manufacturing EnvironmentsPanasas
Panasas parallel storage brings HPC storage features to Computer Aided Engineering (CAE) applications in manufacturing environments. The combination of scalable application software and commodity compute
clusters that leverage Panasas® ActiveStor® scale-out NAS technology has resulted in
significant productivity advantages for CAE workflows. The benefits range from compelling cost/performance improvements
to time-saving, high-fidelity simulation.
From limited Hadoop compute capacity to increased data scientist efficiencyAlluxio, Inc.
Alluxio Tech Talk
Oct 17, 2019
Speaker:
Alex Ma, Alluxio
Want to leverage your existing investments in Hadoop with your data on-premise and still benefit from the elasticity of the cloud?
Like other Hadoop users, you most likely experience very large and busy Hadoop clusters, particularly when it comes to compute capacity. Bursting HDFS data to the cloud can bring challenges – network latency impacts performance, copying data via DistCP means maintaining duplicate data, and you may have to make application changes to accomodate the use of S3.
“Zero-copy” hybrid bursting with Alluxio keeps your data on-prem and syncs data to compute in the cloud so you can expand compute capacity, particularly for ephemeral Spark jobs.
Vidhyalive offers netapp training(Instructor led live online training) with real-world scenarios.Learn how to configure the technologies of the NetApp. Please visit Here for further details: http://www.vidhyalive.com/product/netapp-training/
Slides: Start Small, Grow Big with a Unified Scale-Out InfrastructureNetApp
Slides from the on-demand webcast (showcasing customer Cirrity). Learn how NetApp® clustered Data ONTAP® 8.2 can help you scale multiple workloads on a single unified storage platform with support for multiple protocols such as SMB 3.0 and pNFS, and scale the performance of all of your applications, whether on SAN or NAS infrastructure.
Hitachi Unified Storage and Hitachi NAS Platform Performance Optimization wit...Hitachi Vantara
Hitachi Unified Storage VM (HUS VM) and Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform (VSP) flash technology helps increase performance and decrease total disk quantity and while lowering power, cooling and space costs. Attend this WebTech to learn more about how to optimize Hitachi Unified Storage and Hitachi NAS Platform performance using flash acceleration, SSD storage, and other technologies.
Spectrum Scale - Diversified analytic solution based on various storage servi...Wei Gong
This slides describe diversified analytic solutions based on Spectrum Scale with various deployment mode, such as storage rich-server, share storage, IBM DeepFlash 150 and Elastic Storage Server. It deep dives several advanced data management features and solutions for BD&A workload derived from Spectrum Scale.
Elastic storage in the cloud session 5224 final v2BradDesAulniers2
Learn about the IBM Spectrum Scale offering (formerly GPFS) and how it can create an elastic storage solution in the cloud. Whether you're storing gigabytes or petabytes, Spectrum Scale can provide you with a high-performance storage solution.
Presented at IBM InterConnect 2015
[NetApp] Simplified HA:DR Using Storage SolutionsPerforce
Perforce administrators have several choices for HA/DR solutions depending on RTO/RPO objectives. Using an effective storage solution such as NetApp filers simplifies HA/DR planning in several ways. In this session we'll look at using a NetApp filer for more reliable HA in the event of storage or application failure and simpler DR replication. In the latter case, deduplication and SnapMirror technology can significantly reduce the amount of data replicated to a remote site.
Maybe your business has outgrown its file server and you’re thinking of replacing it. Or perhaps your server is dated and not supporting your business like it should, so you’re considering moving to the cloud. It might be that you’re starting a new business and wondering if an in-house server is adequate or if you should adopt cloud technology from the start.
Regardless of why you’re debating an in-house server versus a cloud-based server, it’s a tough decision that will impact your business on a daily basis. We know there’s a lot to think about, and we’re here to help show why you should consolidate your file servers and move your data to the cloud.
In this webinar with Talon Storage Solutions, we covered:
-Challenges of using a physical file server
-Benefits of using a cloud file server
-Current State of the File Server market
-Reference Architecture examples for cloud file servers
-Demo: how to architect a cloud file server with highly-available storage
Learn more at https://www.softnas.com
Backup systems are being asked to do things they were never designed for - and it’s killing them. Join experts from Storage Switzerland and NEC as they discuss the four assumptions that are killing backup storage:
* Assuming backup is an archive
* Assuming it can grow forever
* Assuming it can support production applications
* Assuming deduplication won’t impact recovery
You’ll come away with strategies that could save your backup system from the changes that threaten to overwhelm it.
For complete audio and access to exclusive papers, register for our on-demand webinar"
https://www.brighttalk.com/webcast/5583/126249
PAS 8 is a high performance scale-out NAS solution designed to support heavy computational workloads for scientific and technical applications, delivering the highest levels of performance, scalability and manageability. Read More.
Doble CPU y doble sistema operativo: Una solución NAS, SAN perfecta para tareas informáticas de alto rendimiento y almacenamiento, utilizando el sistema operativo QES o QTS
In this slidecast, Daniel Noer from Panasas describes the company's new PanFS 5.5 release, which offers Windows support for technical computing.
Learn more: http://panasas.com/news/press-releases/panasas-delivers-enterprise-ready-microsoft-windows-support
Watch the video presentation: http://wp.me/p3RLHQ-bvM
In this presentation, Skip Levens from Quantum describes the company StorNext5 family of Appliances and Quantum Lattus Object Storage for Big Data management.
"For customers who need to retain and access hundreds of terabytes of unstructured data, Quantum Lattus Object Storage is a self-healing, self-protecting private cloud solution that enables more efficient primary storage usage, delivers extreme archive data resiliency and protection, and offers low latency disk access to archive data. Compared to RAID or tape storage, Lattus Object Storage provides the most effective solution on a cost/performance basis for active access, retention and protection of unstructured data in large archive environments."
Learn more: http://www.quantum.com/products/bigdatamanagement/index.aspx
Watch the video presentation: http://inside-bigdata.com/2013/12/12/introducing-stornext5-appliances/
StorMagic have announced a major new release of SvSAN bringing unprecedented flexbility, efficiency and performance to our customers and partners.
Join John Glendenning (SVP Sales and Marketing) and Luke Pruen (Technical Services Director) to learn more about how SvSAN 6 can modernize your IT infrastructure and take advantage of next generation software defined storage built on a proven platform.
StorMagic SvSAN 6 is available to purchase now and is available through StorMagic’s Preferred Partner Network and via the company’s global OEM agreement with Cisco. Order your free trial now by visiting http://stormagic.com/trial/
Storage for Microsoft®Windows EnfironmentsMichael Hudak
This document explores some of the common challenges Windows® architects and administrators face in managing storage for Microsoft® environments with workloads such as:
• Microsoft Exchange Server,
• Microsoft Office SharePoint® Server,
• Microsoft SQL Serv
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Is Your Storage Ready for Commercial HPC? - Three Steps to TakePanasas
Learn why:
1. HPC workloads are on the rise
2. Enterprise storage can't meet HPC demands
3. Traditional HPC storage is a poor fit
4. 3 Steps to design Enterprise-Class HPC
Panasas ® University of Cologne Success StoryPanasas
In 2004, the Center for Applied Informatics at the
University of Cologne in Germany, sought to bring
high-performance computing (HPC) in the form of
Linux cluster computing to one of the oldest and most
prestigious institutions of higher education. Over
the years as the demand on their HPC resources
continued to grow, their existing storage systems could
not keep pace. This case study details the challenges
faced by the Center at the University of Cologne and
how Panasas storage successfully met the Center’s
requirements for a scalable, ultra high-performance
storage infrastructure.
CD-adapco is the world’s largest independent CFD-focused provider of engineering simulation software, support, and services. The company’s STAR-CCM+ provides comprehensive simulation capability for solving problems involving flow of fluids and solids, heat transfer, and stress within a single integrated package. Obtaining results quickly requires extreme processing power matched to a big data storage solution that eliminates I/O bottlenecks.
Deluxe Australia is a leading provider of services and technologies to the worldwide entertainment industry including top Hollywood studios. For nearly a century, Deluxe has provided content owners and creators with the tools and talent they need to bring the most compelling and exciting stories to life. Deluxe specializes in production,
post-production, distribution, and asset management.
Oxford University’s Advanced Research Computing (ARC) facility (formerly known as the Oxford SuperComputing Centre) is a central resource available to researchers from
any discipline that need access to High Performance Computing (HPC) capabilities. By offering the ability to store large data sets accessed by high performance applications running on large compute clusters, researchers can tackle larger, more complex
questions with ease. ARC relies on its Panasas ActiveStor hybrid scale-out NAS solution to provide fast, reliable, and easy-to-administer storage around the clock to support
researchers’ diverse work flows.
TerraSpark Geosciences designs software tools for energy exploration and production. Its flagship product, Insight Earth, enables visualization-guided 3D seismic volume interpretation of structure and stratigraphy, and integrated directional well-path planning
The Institute for Digital Research and Education (IDRE) at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) provides a high performance computing (HPC) private cloud to empower university scholars with the computational resources they need for core
design and discovery. Through the collaborative efforts of its experienced team of researchers, IDRE helps make UCLA a world leader in high-performance computing,
visualization research, and education.
Panasas ® The Defence Academy of the United Kingdom Panasas
The Nuclear Department at the Defence Academy of the United Kingdom, recently installed ActiveStor 11 to accelerate research. Leveraging PanFS, the integrated
Panasas parallel file system to support a high performance Linux cluster, the academy performs Monte Carlo simulations of whole core reactor behaviors and runs
deterministic models of radiation transport problems.
The Center for High Performance Computing at Utah State University (HPC@USU) provides campus-wide HPC
resources to facilitate world-class research and
scientific discovery. The center relies on Panasas ®
ActiveStor® to provide cost-effective performance, scalability, and ease of use to fuel research excellence
Big data describes the phenomenon of using data to
derive business value. Financial organizations create value
with big data through the collection and simulation of data
for risk analysis, research, and post-trade analytics. The
sheer volume and growth rate of data can strain storage
resources. Monte Carlo simulation, tick data analysis, and
portfolio optimization require high performance parallel
storage to satisfy the demand for fast, shared access to
large and small files alike. This data explosion is driving
the need for fast, extremely scalable, easy to manage, and
affordable high performance storage system
ActiveStor removes performance bottle necks found in traditional NAS systems by allowing the compute clients to read and write data in parallel to and from the physical storage devices, allowing incredibly fast access to very large data sets from many clients, simultaneously. Companies who deploy Panasas storage will dramatically
reduce processing time—improving user productivity and reducing overall project time while simplifying storage operations and management
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory uses Panasas ActiveStor to accelerate global c...Panasas
With nearly 8.5 petabytes of ActiveStor storage, the Panasas installation at Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL) represents one of the largest multi-location, high-performance computing (HPC) storage deployments in Great Britain. Panasas ActiveStor gives RAL a solution that offers extreme scalability and simple storage management capabilities so that scientists can focus on important research, not on cumbersome system administration.
Genomics Center Compares 100s of Computations Simultaneously with PanasasPanasas
The Center for Integrative Genomics brings together researchers from traditionally separated fields of study to analyze and compare the genome sequences of a broad spectrum of organisms in order to determine the mechanisms responsible for evolutionary diversity among animals, plants and microbes. The university was facing a challenge to quickly and easily conduct comparative analyses of hundreds of computations required to accomplish their mission to research and understand gene regulation. Here is how the integrated software/hardware solution which includes the Panasas Operating Environment and the PanFS™ parallel filesystem with the Panasas DirectFLOW® protocol helped the University to achieve exceptional performance.
The Andrej Sali Lab Processes Millions of Small Files with PanasasPanasas
The University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) needed a computing solution that could process millions of small files as quickly as possible for researchers identifying the structural similarities of protein models. They needed to eliminate poor storage system performance and significantly decrease administrator management time and within a limited budget. Here is how the fully integrated software/hardware solution including the Panasas Operating Environment and the PanFS parallel file system with the Panasas DirectFLOW protocol helped UCSF to overcome the challenges.
UCSC's Biomolecular Department Eliminates I/O Bottleneck with PanasasPanasas
Slow I/O and downtime impacted the run times of the University of California Santa Cruz's Genome Browser search tool used by scientists in their work to solve questions of the postgenomic era. They were searching for a storage solution that delivered high performance random I/O to an exceptionally large number of cluster nodes and one that would allow them to focus solely on their tests instead of the systems running them.
Panasas Storage Smooths Turbulence for ICME at Stanford UniversityPanasas
An existing storage system hindered the compute performance of this research organization’s work in designing systems free of performance and safety issues related to turbulence. Their storage system often hung and limited the productivity of the cluster. A critical issue for a new system was installation and amount of time required for ease of integration. The fully integrated software/hardware solution to this problem included the Panasas Operating Environment and the PanFS parallel file system with the Panasas DirectFLOW protocol.
Panasas Delivers Seismic Data 10x Faster to Geophysical Development Corp.Panasas
To deliver fast and accurate seismic data to their global customers exploring and developing hydrocarbon reserves, Geophysical Development Corporation (GDC) required a new storage system to maximize the compute power of their Linux cluster. Here’s how they improved their performance by 10X with a simplified cluster management.
National Institutes of Health Maximize Computing Resources with PanasasPanasas
The National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), a division of the National Library of Medicine (NLM) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), serves as a national resource for molecular biology information serving research groups from around the world. Here’s how Panasas works with them to deliver 5X performance and affordable scalability for fast growing archives.
MicroSeismic Sees Tenfold Performance Increase with PanasasPanasas
Inadequate storage architecture slowing production processing was impacting MicroSeismic’s ability to deliver meaningful seismic imaging data to customers in a timely manner. Here’s how Panasas Storage with DirectFLOW® client software helped them achieve 10X application performance improvement.
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PANASAS OVERVIEW
§ Scale-out NAS Solutions for Enterprise and Research
• ActiveStor appliances in 5th generation
• Shipping Since 2004, with 19 patents issued (more pending)
§ Panasas Management
• Storage-focused executive management team
• Highly experienced technical team
− Dr. Garth Gibson, Founder & Chief Scientist, Author of “Berkeley RAID Paper”
§ VC Funded
• Mohr Davidow, Samsung Ventures, Intel Capital, Focus Ventures,
Centennial Ventures
Industry Recognition
Faye Pairman,
Panasas CEO
Cloud Project of
the Year
Public Sector
Storage Project
of the Year
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Life
Sciences
Genomic
Sequencing
Computa1onal
Chemistry
Molecular
Modeling
BIG DATA: DESIGN & DISCOVER
Energy
Seismic
Processing
Reservoir
Simula1on
Interpreta1on
Finance
Por=olio
Op1miza1on
Credit
Analysis
Risk
Analysis
Manufacturing
EDA
Simula1on
Fluid
Dynamics
(CFD)
Acous1c
Analysis
Op1cal
Correc1on
Structural
Mechanics
Government
Weather
Forecas1ng
University
Materials
Science
Life
Sciences
Climate
Modeling
High
Energy
Physics
Private
Clouds
Defense
Intelligence
Media
Digital
Post-‐Produc1on
Rendering
Satellite
Imaging
Digital
Ac1ve
Archives
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THE SCALABILITY-RELIABILITY DILEMMA
§ Hard Drive Failures are Inevitable
• Drive failures become more frequent with scale simply because there
are more drives to fail.
• For this reason, most scalable NAS systems bring scalability that
comes at the cost of lower data reliability and availability.
§ Hardware RAID Increasingly a Problem for Legacy Storage
• Reliability and availability get worse with scale
• Multi-day rebuild times becoming common
• Odds of encountering sector errors too high, even for RAID 6
§ RAID Solutions Typically Architected for Protection, not Fast
Rebuilds
• Long RAID rebuild times lower overall data availability
• Rebuild time determined by the quantity of data to rebuild and the
RAID architecture performance
• Greater risk to production data during rebuild
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RELIABILITY AND AVAILABILITY AT SCALE
§ PanFS Delivers Unmatched Data Protection in Software
• Erasure codes protect every file individually
− No hardware RAID, no block-level rebuilds
− Limits rebuilds to affected files, not entire drives
• RAID 6+ with triple parity protection: 150x improvement over dual parity
− Guards against two simultaneous drive failures and single sector errors on
multiple drives
− Only ~25% capacity overhead and minimal performance impact vs. RAID 5+
• RAID rebuild performance scales linearly
− Mitigates risk from additional components at scale
• Randomized distribution of data means increased reliability at scale
− Odds of “one-too-many” drive failures affecting data decrease with scale
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PER-FILE RAID INCREASES RELIABILITY
§ Per-file Distribution Reduces Risk at Scale
• Small files are triple mirrored, large files are striped
• With more and more drives, three drive failures (exceeding fault tolerance)
are less and less likely to affect any given file
One file damaged;
Only need to restore File 5
No files damaged;
Can rebuild all data
File 1 (small): down 2, rebuild mirror
File 2 (small): unaffected
File 3 (small): down 1, rebuild mirror
File 4 (large): down 2, RAID 6 rebuild
File 5 (large): down 3, file damaged!
File 1 (small): unaffected
File 2 (small): down 1, rebuild mirror
File 3 (small): unaffected
File 4 (large): down 1, RAID 5 rebuild
File 5 (large): down 1, RAID 5 rebuild
x x x
Files distributed over ten drives
X = DRIVE FAILURES
x x x
Same files distributed over 20 drives
X = DRIVE FAILURES
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UNMATCHED DISASTER RECOVERY
§ Fast Time to Restore
• Restore specific files instead of entire file system
• Made possible by extra protection of namespace (directory data) in RAID 6+
§ Percentage of Files to Restore Approaches Zero with Scale
• With RAID 6+ (66% small files), a triple simultaneous disk failure means:
1 in ~200,000
files to restore
1 in ~200,000,000
files to restore
Scaling by 10x increases reliability by 1000x!
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REVOLUTIONARY AVAILABILITY MODEL
§ Extended File System Availability (EFSA) Ensures Business
Continuity
• File system remains available when other systems would be down
(even after one-too-many drive failures)
• Directory structure stays navigable and all unaffected files can be
accessed normally
• Only a small number of affected files will be unavailable until restored
from backup
§ Replaces “All Up/All Down” Model of the Past
• Targets an “always on” architecture
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PANASAS ACTIVESTOR PLATFORM
ActiveStor Appliance
§ Powered by PanFS storage operating system
§ 122.4TB per shelf à scales to 12PB
§ 1.5GB/s per shelf à scales to 150GB/s
Director
Blade
§ Metadata access
§ System management
Storage
Blade
§ Parallel data access
§ Advanced caching
Panasas Architecture
COMPUTE CLIENTS
CPUs = RAID ENGINES
PANASAS DIRECTFLOW
PARALLEL + SCALABLE
PANASAS ACTIVESTOR
§ Single global namespace
§ Single system to manage
§ Seamless scaling with no downtime
§ Pay as you grow
§ Linear performance scaling
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NEW: ACTIVESTOR 16 WITH PANFS 6.0
§ ActiveStor 16: Platform for PanFS 6.0
• 50% higher density, leveraging HGST UltraStar®
He6 6TB drives
• Faster director blade speeds RAID rebuilds
• Flash sized for RAID 6+
§ PanFS 6.0: RAID 6+ Triple Parity Protection
• Per-file, distributed RAID 6+ overcomes limitations
of traditional RAID
• Reliability increases with scale, not decreases
• Extended File System Availability ensures business
continuity when other systems would be down
• Quickly restore specific files for disaster recovery,
not whole file system
ActiveStor 16
HGST UltraStar® He6
6TB Drive
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ACTIVESTOR 16 PLATFORM
§ 50% Increase in Density
• Hitachi HGST He6 Helium-filled 6TB drive
technology
• 240GB SSD optimized for RAID 6+
• 122.4TB per 4U shelf
§ Linear Scalability
• Field proven to 12PB and 150GB/s in a single,
global namespace
− 100 shelves, 2000 HDDs, 1000 SSDs
§ Improved Director Blade Performance
• 19% faster CPU (2.53GHz quad-core)
• 4x more cache: 48GB memory
• Improves metadata, small file and RAID rebuild
performance
§ Strong at Both Throughput and IOPS
• Ideal for large file, small file, and mixed workloads
• >13,000 random 4KB file read IOPS per shelf
• 1.5 GB/sec per shelf
ActiveStor 16
Storage Blade
240GB
SSD
CPU
8GB
Cache
6TB
HDD x2
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SUMMARY
§ IT staff in technical research and enterprise environments need
scalable and reliable high-performance storage that is easily
managed
§ Selecting scale-out storage usually requires compromises
• High performance computing file systems deliver performance but
compromise on reliability, availability, and ease of management
• Enterprise NAS systems deliver high reliability and availability but
compromise performance
§ Panasas ActiveStor delivers a no-compromise solution
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PANASAS® ACTIVESTOR®
“No Compromise” Hybrid Scale-Out NAS
§ Enterprise-Grade Reliability
• Triple parity protection with RAID 6+
• Reliability increases with scale
• Extended File System Availability
§ High Parallel Performance
• Direct data access eliminates
traditional NAS bottlenecks
• Capacity and performance scale
linearly to 12PB and 150GB/s
• Flash accelerated hybrid architecture
§ Easy Management
• Minimal management effort at scale
• Set up or grow capacity in <10 minutes
• Single, global namespace
ActiveStor 16