Results of SPEC SFS 2014 Benchmark Testing of WekaIO Matrix Product

WekaIO, Inc. announced the results of the independent SPEC SFS 2014 benchmark testing of its Matrix product; establishing it as the industry leader for customers looking for high performance file systems with a price-to-value benefit.

Having established itself in the number one position for the SPEC SFS 2014 software build in January 2019, the company has now posted results for all remaining benchmarks in the SPEC test suite. In addition to performance and scalability, the firm has demonstrated low latencies across the benchmark suite, reaffirming Matrix is the fastest parallel file system.

The recent SPEC SFS 2014 testing was conducted on a standard Matrix-enabled cluster, utilizing commercially available storage server infrastructure. The tested storage cluster included six Super Micro Computer, Inc. (SMCI)’ BigTwin systems with Micron Technology, Inc.‘ 9200 NVMe drives and Mellanox Technologies TLV Ltd. ConnectX 100GbE networking.

The benchmark suite tested a variety of application types that stress both small and large file I/O and metadata including: software builds, video streaming, databases, virtual desktops and electronic design automation (EDA). In all application types, Matrix was the front runner on both a performance metric and overall response time (ORT), a measure of latency. The following chart outlines the position relative to other contributors across the spectrum of tests.

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“We know first-hand the great throughput and IO/s performance that Matrix delivers, because we use MatrixFS to accelerate our demanding engineering workloads and accelerate our time to market. And we are happy to be a partner to provide the network technology for the state-of-the-art storage solutions,” said Michael Kagan, CTO, Mellanox. “The technology and performance advantages of our ConnectX adapters and Spectrum Ethernet switches combined with WekaIO Matrix delivers breakthrough performance for storage services across a distributed shared network, achieving higher performance and ROI than legacy architectures.“

“We couldn’t be happier with these results, which underscore Matrix as the world’s fastest parallel file system offering the best performance density and achieving the highest number with 60% fewer compute clients,” said Liran Zvibel, CEO and co-founder, WekaIO. “The high performance and low latencies achieved by Matrix are attributable to our customer adoption dominance in the demanding use cases common to technical computing. Engineering design is an explosive growth area in which breakthroughs in artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning, and the IoT are transforming global production processes and generating vast amounts of data for conversion into business intelligence. Matrix shines in this area with its ability to accelerate data-intensive workflows while reducing storage complexity and cost.“

“WekaIO’s reported performance in recent SPEC SFS 2014 testing bolsters the company’s growing reputation as a leading innovator and an important company to consider in the expanding global market for advanced storage solutions,” said Steve Conway, SVP, research, Hyperion Research. “SPEC SFS 2014 is a trusted benchmark not just for existing HPC workloads but also for emerging AI, machine and deep learning tasks that can create even bigger challenges for metadata IO and storage.“

The company believes in the value of benchmark testing as a means to guide and inform development in the industry and frame results in a manner that delivers actionable intelligence to customers.

Resource:
Full SPEC SFS results

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