Cirrascale Cloud Services Adding NVMe Hot Tier Storage Offering Powered by WekaIO

Cirrascale Cloud Services LLC added a specialized NVMe hot tier storage offering powered by WekaIO, Inc.‘ Matrix file system, to its cloud services platform.

The offering helps remove storage bottlenecks faced by customers who use inference training datasets consisting of millions of files to improve outcomes and increase accuracy of deep learning models.

Matrix software is a parallel and distributed file system that has been designed to leverage flash technology. Both data and metadata are distributed across the entire storage infrastructure to ensure massively parallel access to NVMe drives. It has demonstrated the ability to saturate a GPU cluster and deliver more than 10GB/s per node across an IB network.

“Our WekaIO Matrix software performs at its peak ability on the Cirrascale Cloud Services platform, providing an unmatched level of performance and scalability for customers in the AI space looking for flexibility in a cloud deployment,” said Andy Watson, CTO, WekaIO. “With WekaIO Matrix, they’ll be able to provide their growing list of deep learning customers a fully parallel and distributed file system that can handle the most demanding data and metadata intensive operations.“

The company differentiates its platform by offering an up-to-date, dedicated GPUs as a bare metal offering. This gives users the power of modern, dedicated, directly accessible GPUs and associated compute hardware, as well as flexibility in system configuration. The available configurations ensure that a variety of application types can be addressed, including deep learning, AI, high performance data analytics, and accelerated databases.

“We have been extremely impressed with the significant speed up we have seen with processing large data sets and being able to keep GPUs receiving data from our back-end storage at tremendous speeds,” said Dave Driggers, CTO, Cirrascale. “With WekaIO Matrix, our customers are now able to experience the level of performance they expect by eliminating I/O starvation when running deep learning analytics.“

Matrix is available as an AI Ecosystem Partner solution on the Cirrascale Cloud Service platform, and current clients wanting to test the performance can sign up for a test drive.