Partnership Between Whamcloud and DataDirect Networks in HPC

Whamcloud, Inc., a venture-backed company formed from high-performance computing (HPC) storage industry veterans, announced the signing of a worldwide support agreement with DataDirect Networks, Inc. This partnership will extend the platform-independent work that Whamcloud is doing to evolve and support open source file systems in the HPC community, including the Lustre parallel file system.

"DDN and Whamcloud share a common mission of maintaining the quality and increasing the adoption of HPC storage technology around the world to enable breakthrough advancements in all areas of science and computing," said Alex Bouzari, CEO and co-founder, DataDirect Networks. "This agreement will allow us to work extremely closely together and continue to offer this open-source technology to the scientific community as a proven, repeatable and easy to support product which can scale to meet the needs of the most data-intensive researchers around the world."

Founded in 1998, DDN provides more bandwidth to the world’s 500 fastest supercomputers (as ranked by Top500.org) than all other vendors combined. Their products are available around the world both directly and through a partner channel that includes Dell, IBM, Sony, and others. Focused on solving the challenges of data-intensive and high growth markets, DDN was the only storage company to be recently named to both Deloitte’s Technology Fast 500 and the Inc. 500|5000.

"The HPC community should take this as a clear signal that Lustre on Linux has a bright future backed with serious, ongoing corporate commitment," said Brent Gorda, CEO of Whamcloud. "DDN is a leading provider of scalable storage solutions across the HPC community, and we are very pleased to add them as a partner."