Panasas and Cray Certify Solution

Panasas, Inc. has collaborated with Cray, Inc. to certify Panasas storage with the Cray CX1 desksid supercomputer.

For organizations wanting to harness supercomputing power without the complexity of traditional computing clusters, the combined solution delivers exceptional performance with the ease of use and seamless integration of a workstation. The two companies exhibited their respective technologies and products at Supercomputing ’09 (SC09) in Portland, Oregon.
 
“Panasas storage is a strong complement to the Cray CX1 system,” stated Ian Miller, senior vice president of the productivity solutions group and marketing at Cray. “We pride ourselves on the combination of speed, ease and affordability of the Cray CX1 product, and Panasas has the storage systems that complement us on all three attributes. We were very pleased with the recent ease-of-use and performance results of our combined certification testing.”
 
“There are more and more applications that require high-performance computing and storage in order to accelerate time to results, but system complexity often is an inhibitor,” noted Terri McClure, senior analyst at Enterprise Strategy Group. “The Cray and Panasas combination is appealing in that it provides supercomputing power without the traditional complexity of cluster management and at an attractive entry price for high-performance computing needs.”
 
In workgroup environments, Panasas storage can be a pooled, private-storage cloud resource shared by scientists, ensuring appropriate storage resources can be flexibly and quickly provisioned to meet storage requirements in near real time. Recent ESG research indicates that early adopters of scale-out architecture believe time to provision is the number one reason for choosing a scale-out architecture, with availability, managability and scalability tied for second place.  Panasas storage combined with the Cray CX1 system delivers on these requirements.