Huawei Introduces Latest PCIe SSD Product for HPC at SC15

AUSTIN, Texas, Nov. 16 — Today Huawei introduced its latest high IO storage PCIe SSD product for high performance computing, the ES3000 V3 series card, at SC15. The ES3000 V3 is on display at the Huawei booth (#173) at SC15, along with other HPC solutions including the FusionServer Liquid Cooling System and the OceanStor 9000 Big Data Storage System. The ES3000 V3 will be available in the U.S. market and globally in Q1 2016.

Huawei also announced that the Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center (PSNC) in Poland upgraded its HPC data center with a Huawei PetaFLOPS-class supercomputer.

The ES3000 V3 NVMe PCIe SSD series can improve storage IO performance to meet Big Data and virtualization needs, and is compatible with mainstream operation systems and virtual machine systems. Huawei ES3000 V3 PCIe SSD provides up to 3.2TB capacity, up to 3.2GB/s bandwidth and 800,000 IOPS performance, and is ideal for HPC customers in various industries, including finance, transportation, energy, and internet.

Application scenarios for the ES3000 series card include:

High performance computing
Online transaction processing
Online analytical processing
Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) cloud and virtualization
Data catching and indexing

PSNC Challenge

PSNC is affiliated with the Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry Polish Academy of Sciences, serves as a major research center in Poland, and appears on the Top 500 list of the most powerful computing systems in the world. PSNC sought to reach peak supercomputing performance with increased density, while simultaneously achieving dramatic improvements in energy efficiency and reducing OPEX.

Solution

In just three days, Huawei deployed a PetaFLOPS-class supercomputer based on the Huawei FusionServer E9000 converged infrastructure blade server chassis with over 1,000 FusionServer CH121 V3 computer nodes. The HPC solution was fully equipped with optimized direct liquid cooling systems, which allowed PSNC to deploy top end performance configuration in a dense blade form factor.

Customer Benefits

PSNC’s new Huawei HPC system is capable of achieving theoretical peak performance of 1.37 PFLOPs, and averages efficiency of node at 0.901 TFLOPS. Additionally, the direct cooling system removes up to 80 percent of heat dissipation, thereby reducing cooling system energy costs by around 40 percent as compared to traditional air cooling designs. The energy efficiency should amount to millions of dollars in savings by enabling PSNC to deploy higher compute capacity within the same power, cooling and cost parameters.

About Huawei

Huawei is a leading global information and communications technology (ICT) solutions provider. Our aim is to enrich life and improve efficiency through a better connected world, acting as a responsible corporate citizen, innovative enabler for the information society, and collaborative contributor to the industry. Driven by customer-centric innovation and open partnerships, Huawei has established an end-to-end ICT solutions portfolio that gives customers competitive advantages in telecom and enterprise networks, devices and cloud computing. Huawei’s 170,000 employees worldwide are committed to creating maximum value for telecom operators, enterprises and consumers. Our innovative ICT solutions, products and services are used in more than 170 countries and regions, serving over one-third of the world’s population. Founded in 1987, Huawei is a private company fully owned by its employees.

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Source: Huawei