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Crucial Differences Between Enterprise, HPC and AI Storage

Choosing the correct I/O storage application is all about understanding three crucial things: the differences in how enterprise storage, high-performance computing (HPC) storage and Artificial Intelligence (AI) storage function. While enterprise workloads are significantly dissimilar from HPC and AI workloads, the latter… [...]

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Born from AI: Accelerating Time to Insight

The more data an organization can collect, analyze and interpret the fastest wins – period. However, many organizations are not selective about the types of data they squeeze through these processes. One study found that 73 percent of data collected by organizations… [...]

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“Swaptronics” an Inexpensive and Quick Method to Isolate Problems in Redundant Components…

In our example, you have an InfiniBand network down on the blue path. There are redundant InfiniBand host channel adapters, cables, InfiniBand switch ports, and storage controllers. As you use this technique you are looking to answer the question, “does the problem… [...]

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“Troubleshooting the Stack” as it Applies to Larger Computer Systems

HPC systems have both layered hardware and software.  A great visual troubleshooting tool is to make a layer diagram of your system, include a couple commands and logs to health check the individual layers. Starting at the end-user client, transverse down through… [...]

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Spectrum Scale Sample Deployment

Gov’t Agency 10PB+ Spectrum Scale Tiered File System Sample Configuration Tier1 & Metadata SSD Storage 8 NDS nodes 8 ARI-103 24-bay block storage Systems 200 TB usable GPFS tier1 storage Tier2 NLSAS Storage 6 NSD nodes 6 ARI-109 56-bay block storage systems… [...]

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