DataDirect Networks to present scalable, high performance appliance-based 2Gb solutionsHeidelberg 20 jun 2002 DataDirect Networks, a provider of high performance storage networking appliances, is presenting 2Gb appliance-based SAN solutions and showcasing their Silicon Storage Appliances to attendees of the International Supercomputing Conference 2002 from June 19-22 at the Heidelberg Convention Center. Silicon Storage Appliances make it easy for the scientific community to deploy and scale high performance storage area network infrastructures in a cost-effective, modular approach to support supercomputing uses including the construction of terascale and distributed computational grids.
Silicon Storage Appliances bring researchers a way to accelerate application productivity, providing data at least three times faster than existing Storage Area Networking (SAN) solutions and ten times faster than Network Attached Storage (NAS) technology. The acceleration of data to applications and users, simply and easily, allows DataDirect Networks' customers to consolidate and share their storage; Silicon Storage Appliances also bring management advantages
to IT professionals tasked with implementing 24/7/365 storage networking foundations.
With the ability to supply an aggregate bandwidth of 800 megabytes per second and support up to 512 servers and 180 terabytes of storage, the S2A 6000 Silicon Storage Appliance brings performance and scalability benefits to scientific and commercial supercomputing centres. By using DataDirect's S2A 6000 Silicon Storage Appliances in a modular fashion to cluster nodes and create larger computational grids, IT professionals can begin to create highly scalable, easy to manage terascale supercomputing systems for a wide range of scientific, industrial and government supercomputing applications.
The S2A 3000, based on enterprise-class S2A 6000 technology, brings a simple to deploy, easy to manage and affordable storage network appliance that supplies an aggregate bandwidth up to 400 megabytes per second (depending on requirements) to workgroups typically consisting of one to eight Linux, Unix, Windows NT/2000, Sun, AIX, HP-UX and SGI compute nodes. The S2A 3000 can easily manage storage network environments ranging in capacity from 500 GB to 7 Terabytes.
"Deploying the Silicon Storage Appliances is our first step toward creating a petascale
storage system that will support the needs of terascale computing systems and distributed computational grids", stated Dan Reed, director of NCSA.
"The principal reasons that we've selected Silicon Storage Appliances for our imaging and analysis needs were the combination of application acceleration and reliability brought about by each appliance", Scott Sinno, MODIS UNIX administrator, NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, explained. "We continue to use Silicon Storage Appliances for the simple configuration and detailed onboard diagnostics that make it very easy to tune and easy to manage our environment."
"We have acquired six Silicon Storage Appliances for production use with existing computer systems and for development of new data services for future, even larger computer systems", Milton Clauser, project manager, Sandia National Laboratories, said.
Customers using DataDirect's Silicon Storage Appliances include Sandia National Laboratories, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories, NASA, NCSA, the National Center for Atmospheric Research, NOAA Forecast Systems Lab, U.S. Army Research Lab, White Sands Missile Range, National Century Financial Enterprises, Time Warner Cable, E! Networks, CineGroupe, RTL Television, CardioNow, Loudeye, Star TV, Sonic Foundry, among others. DataDirect SAN partnerships include industry leaders VERITAS Software, Seagate, Emulex and QLogic, among others.
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