SPEC SFS 2014 Test Results for WekaIO Parallel File System
Software is capable of handling both large file I/O as well as small file random I/O and metadata intensive applications such as AI and technical compute workloads.
This is a Press Release edited by StorageNewsletter.com on April 12, 2018 at 2:15 pmWekaIO, Inc. released independent SPEC SFS 2014 test results, which substantiate its claim that the company is a fast parallel file system.
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With record-breaking performance, the firm beat all previously submitted dedicated appliance results by 2X, reaching 1,200 simultaneous software builds.
The solution under test was a standard the company’s Matrix enabled cluster in dedicated appliance mode utilizing commercially available storage server infrastructure. The software is capable of handling both large file I/O as well as small file random I/O and metadata intensive applications such as AI and technical compute workloads. No specialized tuning was required for different or mixed-use workloads.
The SPEC SFS 2014 results were measured on just four BigTwin systems from Super Micro Computer, Inc., with Micron Technology, Inc.‘ NVMe drives and Mellanox Technologies, Ltd. 100Gb/s networking. Using off the shelf industry-standard components, WekaIO’s software achieved 1,200 simultaneous software builds and 600,000 IO/s at 1ms overall response time, beating a combination of IBM Spectrum Scale 5.0 with NVMe-over-fabrics appliance by 2X.
“We couldn’t be better positioned to support artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning, research, and HPC workloads,” said Liran Zvibel, CEO and co-founder, WekaIO. “WekaIO previously shattered the record by delivering 1,000 software builds running on r3.8xlarge instances on AWS. We wanted to be the first company to show that we can deliver exceptional performance on any server platform, on-premises or in the cloud. We believe these results show our solution is uniquely positioned to be the best storage for future hybrid infrastructure.“
“With this SPEC SFS benchmark, WekaIO has proven that they can provide industry leading performance using our BigTwin server systems,” said Michael McNerney, VP, software solutions and network security, Supermicro. “This benchmark also gives further testament to how Supermicro BigTwin systems deliver incredible performance with low latency and extra bandwidth for intense workloads. In fact, storage performance is accelerated with native NVMe-over-fabrics support for all-flash NVMe drives.“
“We are delighted to partner with WekaIO,” said Rob Davis, VP, storage technology, Mellanox. “The latest SPEC SFS results for WekaIO indicate that Ethernet-based storage services across a distributed shared network powered by Spectrum switches and ConnectX NICs, can deliver performance and latencies that are better than legacy architectures such as FC.“
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