67% of HPC TOP500.org Sites Rely On DDN

For the sixth consecutive year, DataDirect Networks, Inc. (DDN) continues its leadership of the TOP500.org global supercomputer rankings with more than two-thirds of identifiable sites among the world’s 500 fastest computers relying on DDN storage infrastructure solutions.

As the premier global list that ranks supercomputers by performance, the TOP500 list illustrates the computer power of scalable computer systems being used within HPC markets.

DDN’s founders, Alex Bouzari and Paul Bloch, have demonstrated the capability to deliver leadership within the TOP500. Their commitment is reflected in the company’s ability to out-innovate its competition, and to meet and exceed the technology requirements for the most data-intensive workflows in the world.

Increasingly, many of these workflows depend on site-wide file systems to help address peak and mixed I/O demands on the storage infrastructure of HPC environments according to a recent DDN end user survey. With major HPC and big data deployments worldwide, DDN is meeting the needs of HPC storage users with scalable centralized storage that serves multiple clusters, lowers TCO and simplifies management and administration.

New DDN deployments including KTH Sweden’s Royal Institute of Technology, HLRS, and Louisiana Optical Network Initiative join the list of existing TOP500 DDN customers.

Many TOP500 organizations including National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC), and Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) are building on DDN’s leadership in delivering performance with early review, testing and adoption of DDN’s Infinite Memory Engine (IMETM) burst buffer and application acceleration technology. This technology offers a range of advances that enable the next generation of HPC capabilities, including game-changing application acceleration, performance optimization, SSD utilization and performance storage.

“HPC environments are under massive scrutiny and budget pressure to accelerate insights and business results. To be continually chosen over alternatives is a huge endorsement of DDN’s ability to meet and exceed the requirements of the most data-intensive workflows in the world. What’s more, the longevity of DDN’s leadership position attests to the fact that we innovate and deliver industry-leading solutions generation after generation,” said Laura Shepard, director, HPC markets, DDN.