Seagate has solidified its position as the #1 choice of high performance storage solutions for new supercomputers. Quite an accomplishment in only four years.
With the release of the latest Top500® list of the world’s fastest supercomputers there were four new entrants into the Top 10 and of those four, Seagate Storage powers them all. In fact, Seagate powers 40% of the Top 20 systems. This outcome demonstrates that organizations are adopting a new way to meet the storage needs of HPC systems.
ClusterStor is a purpose-engineered HPC storage solution designed, manufactured and supported by Seagate. Our deep and unique understanding of storage is extended through the entire engineered system where every aspect is co-designed from the storage media through the software stack. Others may claim to have purpose-engineered systems, but only Seagate owns 85% of the intellectual property inside the entire rack. This lends itself to a truly HPC engineered solution vs. a “purpose tweaked” by other HPC storage vendors.
Why choose Seagate?
The combination of shrinking budgets and insatiable storage appetite demands solutions that deliver maximum efficiency. Sometimes disk drives are like the kicker on a football team: if he makes the shot he’s the hero and if he misses, the entire game is blamed on him. This is true for disk drives – often blamed for any bottlenecks. What Seagate has realized is that this does not have to be. System performance efficiency is directly related to maximizing the throughput of the underlying storage media. Because Seagate designs and manufactures drives we have a unique ability to optimize the entire system compared with any other vendor.
The good news for organizations that need high performance storage; they can now take advantage of a new powerful component that raises the bar in HPC storage. Seagate is quite excited to introduce the world’s first hard disk drive designed specifically for HPC and Big Data workloads. It is aptly called the ClusterStor HPC Drive – the fastest 3.5” high capacity drive every built. This innovation was a result of co-design philosophy between the Systems and Drive engineering teams in Seagate to produce an optimized drive and system uniquely equipped to meet the data ingest, access and reliability needs of today’s toughest HPC environments.
Ironically, until recently there was no point in making a cutting-edge disk like the ClusterStor HPC Drive – existing storage system architectures could not take advantage of the speed offered by such an advanced storage technology. Our fourth-generation Lustre-based ClusterStor L300 delivers 1TB/s in only eight racks and still gives you nearly 10PB of capacity utilizing our HPC Drive. No other vendor can offer this unique blend of performance ($ per GB/s) and capacity ($ per GB).
The newest Top 500 list demonstrates that users are adopting Seagate storage systems and why Seagate is the #1 choice for new supercomputer sites. What a difference four years can make…and we have plenty of innovation at Seagate yet to be unveiled.
Check out our latest blog post and click the link at the bottom to watch how ClusterStor met the strict performance efficiency requirements at a leading climate center.