RAID Inc. Showcased Enterprise IB Storage

Running GPFS and Lustre, 240TB, expandable to 2.4PB

This is a Press Release edited by StorageNewsletter.com on November 30, 2011 at 2:55 pm

RAID Inc. was performing demonstrations using its Xanadu 360s in GPFS and Lustre at SC11.

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Each Xanadu 360 has a front loaded design for ease of use in a 4U foot print capable of accommodating 240TB and sustaining up to 3GB/s in GPFS and Lustre.

A 42U rack housing ten Xanadu 360s can hold 2.4PB and sustain 30GB/s in most parallel file system implementations. RAID was demonstrating the Xanadu 360s at at SC11 in Seattle, WA on Nov 14 – 17.

The client-server communications as well as server-storage connections will be on the same unified IB Fabric. The client side cluster consists of soon-to-be-released 2U 4-Node Romley EP System, a 5U 8-Socket Nehalem, 2U Quad-Socket Nehalem and a 1U Quad-Socket Nehalem System. The server side consists of four dual IOH servers for maximum performance.