WekaIO Awarded First-Place Ranking on IO-500 Challenge Compared Storage Systems

WekaIO, Inc. announced that it has been awarded the first-place ranking on the IO-500 Challenge, rankings that compare storage systems that work in tandem with the world’s largest HPCs.

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The Weka File System (WekaFS) running on Amazon Web Services (AWS) set a record on the IO-500 benchmark with an overall number of 938.949-51% better performance than the prior record set at SC19.

The overall performance record achieved demonstrates that HPC on the cloud can compete with the most advanced on-premises HPC clusters.

The company received the award for the highest overall number as well as the highest metadata performance, demonstrating that its distributed metadata is a game changer for HPC.

Each system was evaluated by the IO-500 benchmark that measures the storage performance using R/W bandwidth for large files and R/W/listing performance for small files. Storage performance in HPCs is a critical factor for large-scale simulation, big data analysis, and AI. The IO-500 list serves as a resource for companies looking to improve their storage performance, which in turn helps to improve processor performance and utilization.

“The results of the IO-500 benchmark validate our leadership position for storage solutions in the HPC market and illustrate the performance benefits associated with using WekaFS on AWS. Weka provides organizations with a way forward to solve tomorrow’s biggest computing problems. It’s is a modern file system architected to provide extreme performance at any scale,” said Liran Zvibel, CEO and co-founder, WekaIO. “This benchmark reinforces how Weka can deliver superior performance density in a more user-friendly manner when compared with the largest HPC storage systems.“

WekaFS is a shared, parallel file system that delivers high bandwidth, low latency performance to any IB- or Ethernet-enabled GPU- or CPU-based cluster. The POSIX-compliant file system leverages an optimized software stack that leverages modern architectures such as low-latency NVMe-oF and distributed metadata. Built for enterprise-grade HPC, it integrates object storage for economics at scale and supports features such as snapshots, encryption, authentication, HA, and cloud backup. It supports protocols such as NFS and SMB to provide end-user access.