The HPC storage performance tier is well defined: scale-out solid state storage systems. But the capacity tier is up for debate. Should you use a high end NAS file system or make the switch to object storage? More importantly: How do you move data from the performance tier to the capacity tier without placing additional burden on already overworked IT personnel? We answer these questions and provide designs that solve the HPC storage-tug-of-war in our webinar with Caringo. Listen as experts on HPC, NAS and Object Storage discuss the HPC storage challenge, debate the potential solutions and provide you guidance on how to create the right architecture.

1. Performance vs. Cost
Solving The HPC Storage Tug-of-War
Webinar
● Should you use a
high end NAS file
system or make the
switch to object
storage?
● How do you move
data from the
performance tier to
the capacity tier?
For audio playback and Q&A go to:
http://bit.ly/HPCTug

2. ● Analyst firm focused on storage, cloud
and virtualization
● Knowledge of these markets is gained
through product testing and interaction
with end users and suppliers
● The results of this research can be
found in the articles, videos, webinars,
product analysis and case studies on
our web site:
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Who Is Storage Switzerland?

3. Our Speakers
George Crump is the founder of Storage
Switzerland, the leading storage analyst focused on
the subjects of big data, solid state storage,
virtualization, cloud computing and data protection.
He is widely recognized for his articles, white papers,
and videos on such current approaches as all-flash
arrays, deduplication, SSDs, software-defined
storage, backup appliances, and storage networking.
He has over 25 years of experience designing
storage solutions for data centers across the US.

4. Our Speakers
Tony Barbagallo is the VP of Product at Caringo
heading product management and product
positioning. He has held a number of senior and
executive product management and marketing
positions in the IT industry at Skyera, GroundWork
Open Source, EVault, EMC-Dantz, Microsoft. He
holds a BS in Computer Science from Syracuse
University.
The Cloud & Object Storage Platform

5. Who Is Caringo?
Object Storage Experts
10+ Years
Swarm 9
The Cloud and Object
Storage Platform
500+ Deployments

6. • Faster performance means
• More simulations
• Faster analysis
• Broader analysis
HPC Requires Higher and Higher
Performance

7. • HPC Performance Solutions
• Intelligent Software with Data Locality
• Put the data next to the CPU
• Shared All-Flash Storage
• Scale-Out Object-Based All-Flash Arrays
• Parallel File Systems with Back End Flash
HPC Requires Higher and Higher
Performance

8. HPC Requires Higher and Higher
Capacity
• Data Preservation
• Re-run old simulations
• Use old data to provide
deeper analysis/simulation
• Larger Working Dataset
• Larger per file/object
• Greater quality of
file/objects
• HPC Capacity Solutions
• Hard Disk Tier within
Primary Storage
• High-Capacity, Highly
Dense Flash System
• Tape

9. • Hard Disks are and will
remain more Cost-
Effective than Flash
• Hard Disks are actually
increasing in reliability
Do Hard Disks Still Make Sense for
HPC?

10. • Recurring Cost of the
Cloud gets Expensive
• Access Charges are
unpredictable
• Access Times are
unpredictable
Why Not Use The Cloud For This?
• And there are the
ongoing Security
Concerns

11. • Seamless integration between High-
Performance Flash and Object
• NAS becomes a Cache to Object
• Native HTTP/S3 Support
• Direct ingest via native NFS Support
• Tiering of older Data to Object
• All-Flash Object Storage
• Flash-based Object Storage is becoming more practical
Object Store To HPC Integration

12. Caringo Swarm Brings Cloud
Approach to HPC
Cut Storage Costs by Up to 75%
Search & custom
metadata for analysis
Consolidate data
Multi-protocol support
for next-gen app & workflows
Secure multi-tenancy
for collaboration

13. Swarm Manages Unpredictability
in HPC Workflows
Instruments & Devices
MULTI-PROTOCOL ACCESS
1. Reduce primary storage footprint & costs
and increase experimentation space
2. Services approach adapts to requirements
eliminating constant migration
3. Streamline access from analysis
tier, local or on compute cluster

14. Faster Discovery by Reducing
Complexity & Migrations
Instruments & Devices
BEFORE
App Server
HPC Cluster
Storage
SAN
Eliminate LUNs & RAID
Reduce data migrations
Instruments & Devices
AFTER
App Server
✓ Reduce storage TCO up to 75%
✓ Reduce data migrations
✓ Secure access and collaboration

15. Scale-Out Storage
with Parallel Access
● Each Storage Node adds CPU, Memory, Network
● Can support thousands of servers simultaneously
● Requests can be sent to any Storage Node
● Requests are routed to the correct Storage Nodes
● All healing operations performed in parallel

16. Thank you!
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17. Performance vs. Cost
Solving The HPC Storage Tug-of-War
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