Next Gen of Terascala Storage Appliances for HPC

Terascala, Inc. announced its next generation of products, a family of storage appliances garnering support from Cray Inc., Dell and LSI Corporation due to the breadth of product line, ease of use and management.

      
Dell | Terascala HPC Storage Solution

"Until now, organizations had to have considerable in house expertise to deploy and manage large scale Lustre parallel storage systems," said Barry Bolding, vice president of Cray’s products division. "Clearly, there has been a need in the broader HPC market for an appliance approach to simplifying Lustre storage solutions. Terascala’s pioneering solutions are just the ticket for organizations whose users require high throughput, high capacity storage."

Terascala offers a range of appliances for high performance computing applications, including the entry-level STS 1000 Storage Appliance, the Dell | Terascala HPC Storage Solution and the high-end DTS 4500. The company also offers Gateway appliances that provide dedicated pathways between the Terascala appliances and the larger compute environment.

"The integration of LSI’s HPC storage systems with Terascala’s expansive family of feature-rich parallel storage appliances provides a strong value proposition to organizations seeking to quickly deploy and manage parallel storage solutions with the highest levels of performance, data reliability and flexibility," said Steve Hochberg, senior director, HPC segment, LSI Corporation. "LSI continues to raise the bar for storage system performance, scalability and density, and with the introduction of Terascala’s next generation of products, we look forward to collaborating on a new wave of solutions that address the unique compute and data storage requirements of HPC organizations."

The Terascala Family of Storage Appliances
Terascala’s family of storage appliances come configured and ready to deploy so setup time is minimized. In most cases, Terascala solutions can be installed, including knowledge transfer and client deployment, in less than three days. All products come with a comprehensive, lights out management suite.

Terascala’s new solutions include:

Terascala DTS 4500
Highest Performance, Reliability, and Simplicity    

• Throughput: 3.0 GB/sec per OSS, IB or 10GbE
• Capacity: 180TB in each 4U storage array. Scalable to petabytes
• Reliability: No single points of failure, active-standby metadata, active-active OSS, redundant storage controllers, battery backup, rapid failover technologies.
• Simplicity: Designed, delivered, and managed as a fully configured appliance

Dell | Terascala HPC Storage Solution
Designed for researchers, universities and departmental HPC users seeking a fully supported, high-performance and cost-effective parallel file system storage solution

• Throughput: 1.2 GB/sec per OSS
• Range of capacity options: 48 to 336 TB per OSS pair
• Availability: Active – passive, RAID 10 metadata architecture
• Monitoring: Ensures rapid failover with no impact on running applications

Terascala STS 1000 Storage Appliance
Entry level, scalable, easy to deploy and manage

• Throughput: 750 MB/sec per OSS, IB or 10GbE
• Scalable capacity: 16TB usable per OSS, 320 TB in a standard rack
• Expandable: Scales linearly without impacting existing environment
• Ease of use: Fully configured and ready to go.

Terascala Gateway Appliances
Provide dedicated pathways between Terascala storage appliances and the larger compute environment

• Data access: Fully configured solutions managed as part of storage
• Protocols: Support for NFS and SMB2 /CIFS
• Network types: Supports 10Gbe, 1Gbe, and IB

"Terascala’s price/performance leading storage appliances help organizations maximize their HPC infrastructures," said Steve Butler, CEO of Terascala. "There has been a market need for easy to deploy and easy to manage storage products and our broad line of high throughput, high capacity storage appliances are rapidly gaining momentum with customers and partners."