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Intel and DDN Join Forces to Enable Compute Infrastructures 1,000 Times Larger Than Today's Biggest Systems
SUNNYVALE, CA, Nov 14, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) --
DataDirect Networks (DDN(TM)), the leader in massively scalable
storage, today announced it has been selected to collaborate with
Intel Corporation as part of the Lawrence Livermore National
Security, LLC (LLNS) managed extreme-scale computing research and
development "FastForward" program, sponsored by the US Department of
Energy. As part of this collaboration, DDN will work with Intel under
the Storage and I/O Research & Development subcontract to develop
next-generation storage technologies focused on resolving the extreme
scalability challenges associated with creating, storing, accessing
and protecting data for the Exascale computing era.
"For more than a decade, DDN has been at the forefront of HPC,
enabling remarkable scientific and computational breakthroughs as
well as significant innovation in the field," said Alex Bouzari, CEO
and cofounder, DDN. "As we help create the Exascale computing era, we
will enable unprecedented levels of discovery in many of the world's
most pressing scientific challenges, including clean energy, medical
discovery, climate modeling and nanotechnology. DDN is excited to
have been selected as one of the builders of the future of the
supercomputing industry."
With a unique expertise developed through supporting many of the
world's leading supercomputing environments, including 60% of the
world's 100 fastest systems(1), DDN was selected for this
collaboration on the basis of its deep understanding of HPC storage
architectures, parallel file systems at scale and web-scale storage
technologies. DDN engineering efforts in the FastForward
collaboration will focus on evolving the state-of-the-art in parallel
file systems, including the Lustre(R) open-source parallel file
system, as well as more tightly integrating compute and storage
platforms to achieve greater efficiency and information insight.
The Intel-led collaboration working on the Storage and I/O Research &
Development subcontract will focus on three main areas that together
cover the Exascale I/O stack from top-to-bottom. Included in the
stack is a new storage interface that tightly integrates with the
HDF5 scientific data library and data model, a next-generation
Flash-optimized storage tier designed to accelerate peak I/O loads in
HPC environments, and a massively scalable storage interface designed
to support the storage foundation requirements to achieve Exascale
infrastructure scalability.
The FastForward program is administered by the Department of Energy
and contracted through Lawrence Livermore National Security as part
of a seven-lab consortium including Argonne National Laboratory,
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Lawrence Livermore National
Laboratory, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Oak Ridge National
Laboratory, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, and Sandia
National Laboratories. Industry partners include leading IT
technology providers, including AMD, Intel, and Nvidia.
DDN will showcase innovative technology and market-leading big data
appliances at the SC12 conference in Salt Lake City, Utah November
12-15 in booth #1519.
About DataDirect Networks
DataDirect Networks (DDN) is the world
leader in massively scalable storage. We are the leading provider of
data storage and processing solutions and professional services that
enable content-rich and high growth IT environments to achieve the
highest levels of systems scalability, efficiency and simplicity. DDN
enables enterprises to extract value and deliver results from their
information. Our customers include the world's leading online content
and social networking providers, high performance cloud and grid
computing, life sciences, media production organizations and security
& intelligence organizations.
Deployed in thousands of mission critical environments worldwide,
DDN's solutions have been designed, engineered and proven in the
world's most scalable data centers to ensure competitive business
advantage for today's information powered enterprise.
For more information, go to www.ddn.com or call +1-800-TERABYTE
(837-2298).
DDN, SFA, and WOS are trademarks owned by DataDirect Networks. All
other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. All
rights reserved.
(1) as of the June 2012 list of the Top500 fastest computers
SOURCE: DataDirect Networks
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