DataDirect Serving 57% of Top 100 HPCs

DataDirect Networks (DDN) announced that the company has increased its adoption by the world’s fastest supercomputers, as ranked by the November 2010 36th edition of the TOP500. As the list of record for the world’s fastest HPC systems, the TOP500 list serves as the barometer of trends and leadership across the clustered computing marketplace.

Having focused on the unique challenges of the HPC industry for over 8 years, DDN’s increasing adoption in many of the world’s most data-intensive computing data centers on this list validates key DDN product design decisions and strong customer focus. DDN’s share of storage systems for the Top500 supercomputers increased across all geographies and all application areas.

This resulted in an increase of DDN’s share of storage
in categories, including:

• 44% of the total performance delivered by the total Top500 list leverages technology from DDN
• DDN experienced a 8% increase in usage by the Top 100 systems, now serving 57% of the Top100 supercomputers – more than any other company
• DDN continues to deliver more bandwidth to the Top500 list than all other storage companies combined

"Supercomputing has become a top priority for governments, universities, and private corporations around the world," said Alex Bouzari, cofounder and CEO, DDN. "In every market and application we serve, DDN works very hard to establish our highly-differentiated solutions as the gold standard by which others are measured, and we are pleased to be the platform of choice for organizations solving the challenging and increasing demands of complex HPC centers."

DDN continues to increase its leadership in HPC storage by delivering products that are differentiated by a focus on two key strategies. First is the Open Platform strategy that gives customers the option to choose among four file systems and Hierarchical Storage Management (HSM) systems that meet the full range of HPC application requirements. Second is a focus on performance that accelerates HPC users’ applications. This allows customers to achieve performance in both streaming and random data access by choosing high performance technologies such as native InfiniBand and solid state disks to meet their demanding storage requirements. DDN HPC-optimized storage solutions provide diagonal scalability, allowing customers to increase capacity and/or performance as their application needs dictate.

"DDN is an established vendor in the HPC market, with a set of solutions that are tailored for the demanding needs of HPC environments," said Earl Joseph, Ph.D., IDC program vice president for high performance computing. "Given the company’s product focus and expertise in HPC, their growth in this area is not a surprise."