Performance vs. CostSolving The HPC Storage Tug-of-War

Webinar

● Should you use a high end NAS file system or make the switch to object storage?

● How do you move data from the performance tier to the capacity tier?

For audio playback and Q&A go to:

http://bit.ly/HPCTug

● Analyst firm focused on storage, cloud and virtualization

● Knowledge of these markets is gained through product testing and interaction with end users and suppliers

● The results of this research can be found in the articles, videos, webinars, product analysis and case studies on our web site:http://storageswiss.com

Who Is Storage Switzerland?

Our SpeakersGeorge Crump is the founder of Storage Switzerland, the leading storage analyst focused on the subjects of big data, solid state storage, virtualization, cloud computing and data protection.

He is widely recognized for his articles, white papers, and videos on such current approaches as all-flash arrays, deduplication, SSDs, software-defined storage, backup appliances, and storage networking. He has over 25 years of experience designing storage solutions for data centers across the US.

Our SpeakersTony Barbagallo is the VP of Product at Caringo heading product management and product positioning. He has held a number of senior and executive product management and marketing positions in the IT industry at Skyera, GroundWork Open Source, EVault, EMC-Dantz, Microsoft. He holds a BS in Computer Science from Syracuse University.

The Cloud & Object Storage Platform

Who Is Caringo?

Object Storage Experts10+ Years

Swarm 9The Cloud and ObjectStorage Platform

500+ Deployments

• Faster performance means

• More simulations

• Faster analysis

• Broader analysis

HPC Requires Higher and Higher Performance

• HPC Performance Solutions

• Intelligent Software with Data Locality

• Put the data next to the CPU

• Shared All-Flash Storage

• Scale-Out Object-Based All-Flash Arrays

• Parallel File Systems with Back End Flash

HPC Requires Higher and Higher Performance

HPC Requires Higher and Higher Capacity

• Data Preservation

• Re-run old simulations

• Use old data to provide deeper analysis/simulation

• Larger Working Dataset

• Larger per file/object

• Greater quality of file/objects

• HPC Capacity Solutions

• Hard Disk Tier within Primary Storage

• High-Capacity, Highly Dense Flash System

• Tape

• Hard Disks are and will remain more Cost-Effective than Flash

• Hard Disks are actually increasing in reliability

Do Hard Disks Still Make Sense for HPC?

• Recurring Cost of the Cloud gets Expensive

• Access Charges are unpredictable

• Access Times are unpredictable

Why Not Use The Cloud For This?

• And there are the ongoing Security Concerns

• Seamless integration between High-Performance Flash and Object

• NAS becomes a Cache to Object

• Native HTTP/S3 Support

• Direct ingest via native NFS Support

• Tiering of older Data to Object

• All-Flash Object Storage

• Flash-based Object Storage is becoming more practical

Object Store To HPC Integration

Caringo Swarm Brings Cloud Approach to HPC

Cut Storage Costs by Up to 75%

Search & custommetadata for analysis

Consolidate dataMulti-protocol support

for next-gen app & workflowsSecure multi-tenancy

for collaboration

Swarm Manages Unpredictabilityin HPC Workflows

Instruments & Devices

MULTI-PROTOCOL ACCESS

1. Reduce primary storage footprint & costs and increase experimentation space

2. Services approach adapts to requirements eliminating constant migration

3. Streamline access from analysis tier, local or on compute cluster

Faster Discovery by Reducing Complexity & Migrations

Instruments & Devices

BEFORE

App Server

HPC Cluster Storage

SANEliminate LUNs & RAID

Reduce data migrations

Instruments & Devices

AFTER

App Server

✓ Reduce storage TCO up to 75%✓ Reduce data migrations✓ Secure access and collaboration

Scale-Out Storage with Parallel Access

● Each Storage Node adds CPU, Memory, Network● Can support thousands of servers simultaneously● Requests can be sent to any Storage Node● Requests are routed to the correct Storage Nodes● All healing operations performed in parallel

Thank you!

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Performance vs. CostSolving The HPC Storage Tug-of-War

For complete Audio and Q&A please register for the On Demand Version at:

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