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Panasas ActiveStor Certified Intel Cluster Ready

The first parallel storage solution to be certified

Panasas,
Inc. announced that its ActiveStor
Storage Clusters are the first parallel storage solution to be
certified as part of the Intel Cluster Ready program. The Intel Cluster
Ready program is designed to make it easier for users to acquire and
deploy clusters built with Intel components.

Intel Cluster Ready
applications and components have been vigorously tested to ensure
applications will run on a given cluster configuration. The Intel
Cluster Ready Specification is the key to Intel Cluster Ready
certification, as it eliminates sources of variability that do not
impact performance usability, or utility, but can spell disaster when
left unspecified. This specification eliminates the risk of installing
incompatible solutions and reduces the time to acquire, configure and
deploy Intel-based clusters. The benefits to end users are increased
productivity and faster time-to-results.

"Panasas is pleased to
be working closely with Intel to deliver best-in-class, Linux clustered
computing and parallel storage solutions that address customers’ most
demanding HPC application I/O requirements,
" said Len Rosenthal, chief
marketing officer at Panasas. "Our work with the Intel Cluster Ready
program reflects a shared vision for commercial, government and
academic customers to take advantage of the industry’s highest
performance and easiest-to-manage parallel storage solutions
."

"Intel’s
Cluster Ready program tries to assist our customers with the
performance and total cost of ownership needs required to deploy
rock-solid, Intel-based computing clusters
," said Karl Solchenbach,
director of cluster software and technologies for Intel’s Software and
Solutions Group. "Panasas’ certification as Intel Cluster Ready will
help our mutual customers accelerate the deployment of their
Linux-based clusters.
"

Panasas ActiveStor Storage Clusters
eliminate storage I/O bottlenecks and optimize the application
performance and compute utilization of Intel clusters. By using Intel
clusters in conjunction with Panasas storage, customers from
industries, including Oil & Gas, Computer Aided Engineering and
Electronic Design Automation, receive a scalable, manageable and high
performance turnkey solution that is optimized for multi-core servers.

Panasas
ActiveStor parallel storage includes the object-based PanFS parallel
file system and ActiveScale 3.0, the third generation of the company’s
powerful operating software environment. The fully-parallel Panasas
DirectFLOW client provides direct access between Linux cluster nodes
and Panasas storage, eliminating costly performance bottlenecks that
legacy storage systems can create when used with parallel applications.
Additionally, a single global namespace dramatically simplifies cluster
management.

Panasas storage is rack mounted, delivering 15
terabytes (TB) of RAID-protected storage capacity per 4U shelf. Up to
150 TB in a single-rack system can be installed in as little as 15
minutes. To further increase capacity, multiple rack systems can be
configured into a single storage cluster that can scale to petabytes
and deliver over 20 Gigabytes in aggregate bandwidth.


Panasas,
Inc.

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