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New, Highly Scalable Data Storage Infrastructure

Many industries are experiencing a sharp increase in the quantity of data that must be stored and processed. In the oil and gas industry, for example, key applications like seismic interpretation, reservoir  characterization, prospect evaluation systems, and petrophysical analysis demand a next level, scalable, infrastructure that provides density, scalability and performance, while being simple to manage and affordable.

RAID Inc., Intel, Mellanox Create Extremely Scalable HPC Infrastructure

RAID Inc., Intel® and Mellanox have partnered to offer a solution to provide a massively scalable and high performance infrastructure for use in a broad range of high performance computing platforms. The RAID Inc. Scale-Out, High Performance File Serving solution consists of hardware components, software elements and infrastructure, all architected to provide balance and scalability.

This means that the components of the architecture have been sized and selected to match the other components and that the solution is designed with growth in mind. Customers can begin by deploying a modest implementation and then easily add storage modules as their needs expand.

RAID Data Storage Module Benefits

  • Availability. Redundant Fail-over components provide high availability of storage subsystem.
  • Protection. Enterprise class components and drives, along with RAID technology protect valuable data sets
  • Scalability. Add Storage Modules as needed to expand to petabytes of usable capacity.
  • Performance. Individual Storage Modules offer 6 GB/s throughput, scaled linearly with added modules. InfiniBand network paths can deliver up to 56Gbps throughput to each compute node.
  • Neutrality. Avoid vendor lock-in by deploying Open Source solutions.
  • Capacity. Each individual Storage Module can be configured with as much as 576 TB of raw capacity.  Scale-out the solution with multiple Storage Modules to obtain petabytes of usable capacity.

RAID, Inc. Intel, Mellanox HPC Scalable Storage Components Include:

  • RAID Inc. ARI 109 SAS RAID Storage Arrays for primary data
  • RAID Inc. ARI 109 SAS RAID Storage Array for Metadata
  • LSI SAS9300-8e SAS HBAs
  • Industry Standard x64 Servers for File Serving and Metadata
  • Enterprise Linux
  • Intel® Enterprise Edition for Lustre software
  • Mellanox ConnectX-3 InfiniBand adapter cards
  • Mellanox InfiniBand Switches