Seagate: ClusterStor System With Flash Acceleration

Seagate Technology plc introduced the ClusterStor 300N storage system with Nytro Intelligent I/O Manager, an addition to its family of scale-out storage systems for HPC and with a flash cache accelerator.

Powered by the software-based Nytro Intelligent I/O Manager, the ClusterStor 300N runs multiple mixed workloads simultaneously on the same storage platform, eliminating performance bottlenecks that can result when data demands outpace what the existing storage architecture can accommodate. As a result, organizations can use it to automatically support multiple applications that generate a diverse range of I/O workloads on the same storage platform without negatively impacting performance.

It’s suitable for the kinds of mixed and unpredictable workloads found in many of today’s demanding, data-intensive HPC applications like seismic processing, financial transition modeling, machine learning, geo-spatial intelligence and fluid dynamics.

For organizations seeking both performance and cost efficiency when managing large data sets at scale with unpredictable workloads, the ClusterStor 300N represents the convergence of company’s enterprise HDDs, solid state designs and a system software within a platform purpose built to help organizations manage and move massive amounts of critical data while maintaining workload efficiency and minimizing the cost per terabyte.

The Nytro Intelligent I/O Manager software delivers up to 1,000% I/O workload acceleration over traditional HPC storage systems and can scale to accommodate any workload at any time.

“Maximizing value of data in the kinds of extraordinary environments represented by supercomputing is all about being able to handle extreme, unpredictable storage bandwidth and capacity needs at scale,” said Ken Claffey, VP and GM, HPC systems business, Seagate. “Seagate’s ClusterStor 300N expands on our proven, engineered systems approach that delivers performance efficiency and value for HPC environments of any size, using a hybrid technology architecture to handle tough workloads at a fraction of the cost of all-flash approaches.“

The ClusterStor 300N is architected as a common platform for both the ClusterStor, Lustre and IBM Corp.‘ Spectrum Scale storage systems as the L300N and G300N, respectively.

“With a long track record of mission-critical HPC deployments and support, Atos Extreme Computing is excited to extend its support to Seagate’s new range of Nytro Intelligent I/O Manager -based ClusterStor appliances,” said Eric Eppe, head, products and solutions, extreme computing, Atos SE. “We believe Seagate’s 300N appliance will help our HPC customers solve their most data intensive workloads and data hierarchy issues in a comprehensive, yet more efficient way.“

“The 300N offers the density, extreme bandwidth, low latency and simplified manageability that our customers demand in their HPC storage environments today,” said Mike Vildibill, VP, HPC storage, Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP. “New storage innovations like the ClusterStor 300N are critical for answering these demands and maintaining a high level of performance across a wide range of workloads.“

The 300N will be available in January 2017.

The ClusterStor family architecture is built on company’s enterprise HDDs and performance parallel file systems such as Lustre and Spectrum Scale. Combining performance with scalability, the ClusterStor family includes the L300N and G300N, as well as the A200 Active Archive, L300, G200, 9000, 1500, ClusterStor Secure Data Appliance and Hadoop Workflow Accelerator for ClusterStor’s architecture.