Aeon Computing Awarded Contract by Los Alamos National Labs

Aeon Computing, Inc., a HPC and Lustre file system storage vendor, has been awarded a contract by Los Alamos National Security, LLC (LANL) to provide two Lustre file systems to enhance LANL’s technical and supercomputing capabilities in support of its national security mission.

Each of the two Lustre file systems provides 14PB of storage capacity and is capable of up to 160GB/s of parallel data access performance. These next-generation systems push the limits of Lustre storage performance.

The two 14PB Lustre file systems will serve the intense data IO workloads of both the facility-wide open research computing and the security-focused computing missions. Each file system is connected to a high-speed computing fabric, with 2.35Tb/s of fabric bandwidth using IB. The two Lustre file systems employ OpenZFS and HA for data integrity and redundancy. Both are powered by end-to-end enterprise-grade technology, including 5020 6TB Enterprise 12Gb SAS disk drives. The file systems are integrated into site-wide monitoring infrastructure without the need for cumbersome or closed vendor APIs.

“We were targeting an open solution that would utilize our Tri-Lab OS TOSS with Lustre, and provide a great performance to cost ratio,” says Kyle Lamb, infrastructure team lead in the HPC division, LANL. “Utilizing commodity hardware and OpenZFS for RAID provides a cost-effective high performance solution with the added benefit of compression to increase available usable capacity. This allows us to provide the high density performance required for our existing clusters as well as our future Commodity Technology Systems.“

According to Jeff Johnson, co-founder of Aeon Computing: “We were able to architect a Lustre file system to meet LANL’s needs that was affordable and employed open standards in hardware and software. We were able to deliver a solution that met and exceeded LANL’s rigorous demands of multi-system HPC data IO and provide a system that was truly open.“

The Aeon Lustre Scalable Unit is a 12U redundant and hot-swappable dual Lustre OSS system, including hot-swap OSS nodes. The Lustre Scalable Unit features 12Gb SAS storage technology and supports single and dual rail FDR and EDR IB, as well as Intel’s Omnipath Fabric and 10/40/100GbE.

The unit is available for sale and can be used in a range of Lustre file system designs.