DDN Powers Two-Thirds of Top 100 HPCs

Over two-thirds of the world’s 100
fastest supercomputers are powered by DataDirect
Networks Inc. according to the latest rankings published by
Top500.org.

With over 170 systems on the
world-renowned listing, in 2012 DDN products saw increased adoption
by the HPC community by 20% year-over-year among systems listed on
the Top500.org November 2012 list.

Delivering the highest level of
platform scalability and performance efficiency, DDN products enable
HPC clusters to accelerate discovery and minimize the cost of
computing.

DDN supports more supercomputers and
HPC clusters than others storage vendor, and provides more total
storage bandwidth to the Top 500 than all other storage vendors
combined.

Notable new DDN customers in the Top500
list include No. 6, Germany’s Leibniz Rechenzentrum; No. 17, the
Tokyo Institute of Technology; No. 23, the U.K.’s University of
Edinburgh, and No 24, the National Computational Infrastructure of
Australian National University.

DDN also is the only vendor with Top500
customers on each continent that had Top500 sites on the November
list.

"The global topic of HPC is
more vital than ever as ‘big data’ computing has democratized much of
the requirements and corresponding technologies that DDN has been
investing in for over a year. At the highest end of scale – whether
in HPC, in web scale computing environments or with high-scale big
data analytics – our solutions, experience, and global partner
network have established DDN as the de facto standard for scalable
and efficient data-intensive computing infrastructure. We continue to
invest heavily in our massively scalable storage portfolio of
products to exceed the expectations of our customers all around the
world – making a difference today and bridging the market to the
exascale era," said Erwan Menard, COO, DDN.