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.
The Panasas ActiveStor family of scale-out NAS solutions enable enterprise customers to rapidly solve complex computing problems, speed innovation and bring new products to market faster. The Panasas ActiveStor HC is a multi-petabyte scale-out NAS solution designed for managing massive amounts of data and delivering the highest levels of performance, scalability and manageability. The Panasas ActiveStor HC is an ideal solution for
organizations requiring scalability, cost efficiency, and performance to capture and store huge amounts of data for technical applications. Panasas ActiveStor HC’s efficient design provides nearly one PB of raw capacity in a single floor tile-sized footprint, and capacity can be added without disruption to create vast, multi petabyte storage pools.
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.
EMC Isilon Best Practices for Hadoop Data StorageEMC
This white paper describes the best practices for setting up and managing the HDFS service on an Isilon cluster to optimize data storage for Hadoop analytics.
Personal storage to enterprise storage system journeySoumen Sarkar
A brief journey through storage wonderland. Notes are not visible when you view in slide share. However they would be visible when the slides are viewed in powerpoint [you have to download the slides for that]
The Panasas ActiveStor family of scale-out NAS solutions enable enterprise customers to rapidly solve complex computing problems, speed innovation and bring new products to market faster. The Panasas ActiveStor HC is a multi-petabyte scale-out NAS solution designed for managing massive amounts of data and delivering the highest levels of performance, scalability and manageability. The Panasas ActiveStor HC is an ideal solution for
organizations requiring scalability, cost efficiency, and performance to capture and store huge amounts of data for technical applications. Panasas ActiveStor HC’s efficient design provides nearly one PB of raw capacity in a single floor tile-sized footprint, and capacity can be added without disruption to create vast, multi petabyte storage pools.
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.
EMC Isilon Best Practices for Hadoop Data StorageEMC
This white paper describes the best practices for setting up and managing the HDFS service on an Isilon cluster to optimize data storage for Hadoop analytics.
Personal storage to enterprise storage system journeySoumen Sarkar
A brief journey through storage wonderland. Notes are not visible when you view in slide share. However they would be visible when the slides are viewed in powerpoint [you have to download the slides for that]
This Redbook talks about the product specification of IBM NeXtScale nx360 M4. The NeXtScale nx360 M4 server provides a dense, flexible solution with a low total cost of ownership (TCO). The half-wide, dual-socket NeXtScale nx360 M4 server is designed for data centers that require high performance but are constrained by floor space. For more information on System x, visit http://ibm.co/Q7m3iQ.
http://www.scribd.com/doc/210745680/IBM-NeXtScale-nx360-M4
Guide using the hpe dl380 gen9 24-sff server as a vertica nodeIT Tech
This document provides recommendations for configuring an individual DL380 Gen9 24-SFF CTO Server as a Vertica node.
The recommendations presented in this document are intended to help you create a cluster with the highest possible Vertica software performance.
Dell PowerEdge R930 with Oracle: The benefits of upgrading to Samsung NVMe PC...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 a caching solution. We saw the greatest performance boost when we used eight Samsung-powered NVMe PCIe SSDs. The upgraded configurations of the Dell PowerEdge R930 with Samsung-powered NVMe PCIe SSDs delivered up to 13.9 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.
Spinning Brown Donuts: Why Storage Still CountsSparkhound Inc.
Storage, next to server hardware, is pretty commoditized and probably the least exciting thing in your datacenter. However, not properly assessing your storage needs and requirements can be the difference between a great app or resume generating event. This session will cover topics such as: Why you may not need all flash, SAN is not just NAS spelled backwards, leveraging cloud storage, why RAID is not a sound backup solution, and cutting through the marketing to make sense of it all.
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
Yesterday's thinking may still believe NVMe (NVM Express) is in transition to a production ready solution. In this session, we will discuss how the evolution of NVMe is ready for production, the history and evolution of NVMe and the Linux stack to address where NVMe has progressed today to become the low latency, highly reliable database key value store mechanism that will drive the future of cloud expansion. Examples of protocol efficiencies and types of storage engines that are optimizing for NVMe will be discussed. Please join us for an exciting session where in-memory computing and persistence have evolved.
This Redbook talks about the product specification of IBM NeXtScale nx360 M4. The NeXtScale nx360 M4 server provides a dense, flexible solution with a low total cost of ownership (TCO). The half-wide, dual-socket NeXtScale nx360 M4 server is designed for data centers that require high performance but are constrained by floor space. For more information on System x, visit http://ibm.co/Q7m3iQ.
http://www.scribd.com/doc/210745680/IBM-NeXtScale-nx360-M4
Guide using the hpe dl380 gen9 24-sff server as a vertica nodeIT Tech
This document provides recommendations for configuring an individual DL380 Gen9 24-SFF CTO Server as a Vertica node.
The recommendations presented in this document are intended to help you create a cluster with the highest possible Vertica software performance.
Dell PowerEdge R930 with Oracle: The benefits of upgrading to Samsung NVMe PC...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 a caching solution. We saw the greatest performance boost when we used eight Samsung-powered NVMe PCIe SSDs. The upgraded configurations of the Dell PowerEdge R930 with Samsung-powered NVMe PCIe SSDs delivered up to 13.9 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.
Spinning Brown Donuts: Why Storage Still CountsSparkhound Inc.
Storage, next to server hardware, is pretty commoditized and probably the least exciting thing in your datacenter. However, not properly assessing your storage needs and requirements can be the difference between a great app or resume generating event. This session will cover topics such as: Why you may not need all flash, SAN is not just NAS spelled backwards, leveraging cloud storage, why RAID is not a sound backup solution, and cutting through the marketing to make sense of it all.
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
Yesterday's thinking may still believe NVMe (NVM Express) is in transition to a production ready solution. In this session, we will discuss how the evolution of NVMe is ready for production, the history and evolution of NVMe and the Linux stack to address where NVMe has progressed today to become the low latency, highly reliable database key value store mechanism that will drive the future of cloud expansion. Examples of protocol efficiencies and types of storage engines that are optimizing for NVMe will be discussed. Please join us for an exciting session where in-memory computing and persistence have evolved.
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
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.
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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.
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
WETEC is een professionele onderneming gespecialiseerd in infrastructurele projecten op
het gebied van high-end systemen, storage en netwerken. http://www.wetec.nl/
The Pendulum Swings Back - Understanding Converged and Hyperconverged Integrated Systems, presented Oct 17, 2017 at IBM Systems Technical University, New Orleans LA
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
The Apache Spark config behind the indsutry's first 100TB Spark SQL benchmarkLenovo Data Center
Some configurations deserve their own SlideShare entry: this is one of them. When the indsutry's first 100TB Spark SQL benchmark was reached, the media took notice. For good reason.
Intel, Mellanox, Lenovo and IBM came together to investigate a topology that leveraged advances in CPU, memory, storage and networking to assess the readiness of Spark SQL to harness new capabilities -- and speeds.
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
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.
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.
MicroSeismic Sees Tenfold Performance Increase with Panasas
PAS 8 Datasheet
1. PAS 8
High Performance Scale-Out NAS
The Panasas family of scale-out NAS solutions enables enterprise customers to
rapidly solve complex computing problems, speed innovation and bring new products
KEY FEATURES
to market faster. The PAS 8 is a high performance scale-out NAS solution designed
• Outstanding Performance:
to support heavy computational workloads for scientific and technical applications,
scalable performance in the
100,000’s of I/Os and 100’s of delivering the highest levels of performance, scalability and manageability. PAS 8’s
GB/sec. efficient design provides up to 44 TB of raw capacity in a compact 4U rack-unit
• Massive Scalability: modular (7”) shelf, and virtually any number of shelves can be networked together to create
hardware architecture that grows scalable, high performance storage pools.
with your storage needs.
• Superior Manageability: Utilizing the patented PanFS™ storage operating system, PAS 8 complements the
fast setup and configuration. entire PAS family of scale-out NAS solutions to create a single pool of storage under
Dramatically reduces
administration overhead, and
a global namespace. This provides customers with the flexibility to support multiple
lowers TCO. applications and workflows in a single storage system, blazing performance for
complex technical applications and massive capacity to support growth, eliminating
multiple islands of storage which dramatically reduces system cost and complexity.
USE CASES Industry leaders worldwide are using Panasas scale-out NAS systems to:
• Finance: Risk Analysis,
MonteCarlo Simulations, Tickdata • Improve time-to-market • Investment protection
Capture, Algorithm Development • Extend research, science, and knowledge • Minimize risk for better returns
• Energy: Seismic Processing, • Solve critical and complex problems at lower cost • Improve predictability
Migration and Interpretation, • Increase the certainty of research and investments • Deliver unprecedented ROI
Reservoir Simulation
• Bio/Pharmaceutical:
BioInformatics, Computational
Chemistry, Molecular Modeling
Performance
The PAS 8 supports a broad range of application performance profiles for NFS,
• Industrial Manufacturing: EDA
Parallel NFS and CIFS data access protocols which seamlessly integrate into the
Simulation, Optical Correction,
Thermal Mechanics existing infrastructure, accelerating return on investment. PAS 8 delivers scalable
performance in the 100,000’s of I/Os and 100’s of GB/sec in a single disk system.
Simply add individual shelves, or racks, to achieve aggregate performance and
capacity. All aggregated shelves are presented as a single system featuring a global
name space providing unified management.
Scalability
The PAS 8 provides extremely high scalability through a modular “pay only for what
you need” hardware architecture that grows with your storage needs. The PanFS
operating system provides a global namespace and a single pool of storage that
scales throughput and capacity symmetrically. PAS 8 also provides unique horizontal
and vertical parity that isolates and repairs media errors at the disk level helping
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