Nyriad and Advanced HPC in Partnership for GPU-Accelerated Storage Systems That Go ‘Beyond RAID’

Nyriad Ltd. and Advanced HPC announce their partnership for a Nvidia Corp.‘s GPU-accelerated storage system that achieves data protection levels beyond any RAID solution.

Advanced HPC’s Orion system is based on the Tyan, server brand, MiTAC Computing Technology Corporation, Thunder SX FA100, which supports 100 HDDs in a 4U rack space without the need for an external host unit. Orion combines Nyriad’s NSULATE software with an Nvidia Tesla P4 and 64GB of Netlist, Inc.‘s NVDIMMs.

Orion is suitable for applications for HPC, big data and hyperscale storage, in verticals ranging from large enterprise to life sciences. To that end, the solution is being adopted by Center for Genome Research and Biocomputing (CGRB), Oregon State University.

Christopher M. Sullivan, assistant director, CGRB, stated: “For many years the growth of disk capacity has far outpaced the growth of interface speeds, leading to extremely long rebuild times on large-scale RAID systems. The CGRB at Oregon State University has played a pioneering role in introducing new hardware and software technologies to solve the growing problems around big data.”

He continued: “Nyriad and Advanced HPC have brought together a hardware and software reference implementation around a GPU to mitigate rebuild times, enable large-scale RAID systems to run at full speed while degraded, reduce failures, and increase overall reliability. We look forward to their continued technology support and innovative approach that keeps CGRB at the forefront of computational research groups.“

Toni Falcone, president, Advanced HPC, said: “We’re eager to take our expertise with NVIDIA GPUs into the storage market, and we’re especially excited to be involved with Nyriad. NSULATE and the Orion server are a breakthrough in hyperscale storage and data-intensive HPC.“

Matthew Simmons, CEO, Nyriad, added: “We are very excited to be working with Advanced HPC, TYAN, Netlist, and NVIDIA to create the world’s first GPU-accelerated storage appliance. I believe this introduction to the market of the first GPU-accelerated storage product heralds the end of the RAID hardware era and the beginning of the GPU era for storage-processing. Once people see how fast, versatile and resilient GPU storage is, it will be impossible to go back to static RAID hardware.“