SC19 Becoming One of WW Largest Storage Events

Supercomputing 2019 (SC19), more precisely The International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis, is the biggest WW show for HPC and now also for storage.

HPC is a big and growing market as some companies need very fast computing associated with vast storage capacities, and now not only for universities and R&D centers, with the growth of technologies like the IoT, AI and 3D imaging.

Hyperion Research forecasts it will reach $44 billion in 2023, compared with $39 billion for 2019. Mondor Intelligence values the market at $33.45 billion in 2018 and is expected to reach $47 billion by 2024, a CAGR of 7% from 2019 to 2024.

Here are the predictions of Tractica:

The most recent SC19 took place on November 18-21, 2019, in Denver, CO.

A lot of the biggest IT companies were on the floor including AWS, Dell, Fujistu, Google, HPE, IBM, Intel, NEC, Nvidia and Oracle, not including many firms in storage only.

In today’s news, we publishes 24 press releases on storage revealed especially during the show, and below 7 other ones already edited on our web site, for a huge total of 31, just for one event.

The technology of Mellanox, being acquired by Nvidia for $6.9 billion to combine computing and connectivity for HPC , is included in the vast majority news. It’s not surprising as it’s without a doubt the leader in high speed IB and Ethernet connectivity, especially for HPCs, with a near monopoly being largely in front of only one competitor, Intel.

The Mellanox’s IB and Ethernet interfaces connect 297 systems, or 59% of overall Top500 platforms, demonstrating 12% growth Y/Y, from November 2018 to November 2019.

Other news already published:
SC19: AIC and Extend ib Partnership
For hard and soft for NVMe-oF storage solutions for HPC
November 22, 2019 | Press Release
SC19: Panasas Re-Engineered PanFS Parallel File System Delivered on ActiveStor Ultra Appliance
Shipping and in early deployment at Sumitomo Metal Mining and University of Minnesota Supercomputing Institute
November 20, 2019 | Press Release
SC19: DDN Expands Data Management Capabilities and Launches Platforms for AI and HPC
Next gene of SFA platforms, data management features of EXAScaler EXA5 file solution
November 20, 2019 | Press Release
SC19: Kioxia With PCIe 4.0 NVMe Enterprise SSDs Achieved PCI-SIG Compliance for PCIe 4.0 and UNH-IOL Certification
Utilizes 96-layer BiCS flash 3D flash memory, PCIe 2×2 or 1×4 lane configuration options, targeted transfer rates up to 6,900MB/s, and supports SFF-TA-1001 operation with Universal Backplanes for simplified customer use with SAS, SATA and NVMe SSDs.
November 20, 2019 | Press Release
SC19: Sony Reveals Optical Disc Archive Gen 3 With 500GB Disc and 5.5TB Cartridge
Up to of 375MB/s and 187.5MB/s RW speeds, lifespan of “over 100 years”
November 18, 2019 | Press Release
SC19: Qualstar Develops Prototype Enterprise Class Library Solution For Sony Optical Disc Archive Gen 3 Technology
From 4.7PB up to 50PB, scaling out to multi-library cluster configurations managing hundreds of petabytes of archive data
November 18, 2019 | Press Release
SC19: Quantumen QMFabricflash NVMe-oF 1U LightHeart Storage System
With up to 32 hot-swappable EDSFF NVMe SSDs, JBOF provides up to 1PB in 1U.
October 24, 2019 | Press Release

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