Atrato First Customer: SRC Computers

Atrato, Inc.,
a provider of high-volume on-demand storage for the high
performance computing, digital entertainment and web sectors, and SRC
Computers, Inc., a company founded by the legendary Seymour Cray and now
a recognized leader in general purpose high performance reconfigurable
computing, today announced a solution integration partnership.

SRC sought to improve data access performance at a government sector
customer site.The resulting system using Atrato’s
V1000 with 14 Terabytes of mirrored capacity surpassed performance
requirements by sustaining 20,000 random access IOPS (input/output per
second).

SRC has integrated the Atrato V1000 into its Hi-Bar interconnected
system solutions that utilize SRC’s MAP
processor. Central to the integration effort was Atrato’s
software development kit (SDK) which allowed SRC to bridge communication
between the two systems to optimize I/O performance. As a result, SRC’s
customers in defense and intelligence, scientific and academic research,
medical imaging, and financial sectors are benefiting from unmatched
capabilities to randomly access terabytes of data.

“To address all levels of our customer base,
we searched nearly three years for the right solution before we found
Atrato,” said Jon Huppenthal, President and
CEO, SRC Computers. “We decided to integrate a
high-performance disk-based system versus RAM-based due to the physical
size and cost. With Atrato’s V1000 system, we
achieved multi-Terabyte dense packaging, high reliability and sustained
random access rates of 20,000 IOPS, allowing us to achieve the value and
performance required by customers.”

Huppenthal added, “We see the V1000 as an
extension of our shared common memory hierarchy. Consequently we access
it using the same DMA protocol as is used to access the rest of our
shared memory. In addition, Atrato’s ability
to achieve the levels of throughput to match the bandwidth of the SRC
product interconnect has been a key differentiator.”

“SRC faces the hardest and most demanding
challenges in the high-performance computing arena, and we are thrilled
that they have done extensive due diligence to implement our
Velocity1000 line,” said Dan McCormick, CEO,
Atrato. “Working with SRC has allowed us to
push the envelope and test the full power of our storage system and
alleviate the key challenges their customers face. SRC’s
extensive expertise has lead to seamless integration, thorough testing
and successful implementation of the two systems. We are excited to
align our business with SRC to address the growing needs of the HPC
community.”

SRC Computers, Inc.

Atrato Inc.