14 DAY TRIAL // Supercomputing pioneer Cray has just announced its entrance into the integrated storage market with the release of the company's Sonexion 1300 system that comes as an integrated file system, software and storage product.
The Cray Sonexion 1300 system was developed especially for a wide range of HPC workloads and it can scale from approximately 50 terabytes to more than 50 petabytes of useable capacity while featuring data rates of more than a terabyte-per-second.
In order to achieve this impressive performance and on-the-fly upgradability, Cray's Sonexion systems are built from three major components.
These include high performance Scalable Storage Units, a Metadata Management Unit, and network-ready cabinets that include InfiniBand switch connectivity. The system runs the Lustre parallel file system and management software.
"More and more of our customers have expressed a need for increased performance, reliability and manageability from storage systems that can be shared with their highest performance, mission critical systems in their datacenter," said Barry Bolding, Cray's vice president of storage and data management.
"As a result, we decided to provide a storage product with a scale-out architecture, which is purpose-designed and built to run Lustre, but employs a testing discipline and set of integrated management tools that exceeds other available solutions.
“The Cray Sonexion 1300 storage solution greatly improves the user experience with shared, scalable Lustre file systems -- both large and small," concluded the company's rep.
The Cray Sonexion 1300 system is available right now with prices starting at less than $250,000 (roughly 184,911 EUR), and clients also have the option of configuring the system according to their wishes.
Furthermore, the Cray Sonexion 1300 storage system will be a key part of the recently announced Blue Waters supercomputer at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois, and will become one of the largest capacity storage subsystems in the world according to Cray.