Stellus Sets Single Client Storage Throughput Record at 33.2GB/s Sustained Writes

Stellus Technologies, Inc. announced the company’s Data Platform‘s industry record for single-client data throughput.

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Progressive application workloads such as cognitive AI, high-speed microscopy, and volumetric video capture require exponential increases in the amount of data being managed from each client or data source. Sustaining high data throughput rates consistently over time is becoming a baseline requirement for all unstructured storage systems. The Data Platform underwent testing and was validated by Alliance Integrated Technology, solidifying the company and its Key-Value over Fabrics architecture as the choice for modern applications in life sciences, M&E, and computational AI.

Data Platform is a performance data system for unstructured data that is built around an industry’s first Key-Value over Fabrics implementation, enabling independent scaling of capacity and performance. The platform software leverages cloud, core and edge infrastructures to enable hyperscale throughput for digital enterprises. Key-Value over Fabrics technology combined with application-specific Key-Value Stores can make unstructured data access 5x faster and 50% more resource efficient than other storage architectures available.

“We had the goal of using the Stellus Data Platform to exceed previously published numbers for the maximum performance of a single Linux-based NFS client, which was 22GB/s,” said Billy Russell, VP and CTO, Alliance Integrated Technology. “We definitely exceeded our goal, reaching over 11GB/s higher performance to a single Linux node at 33.2GB/s to a Stellus cluster in a single namespace. The results are amazing and give us capability well beyond 8K workflows, in fact, well into 16k workflows when that technology becomes available. This is an immediate game changer for M&E workloads.” (Billy Russell’s testimonial video).

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Highlights include:

Testing/methodology: The tests were conducted with the company’s Data Platform software release version 1.0.3. A variety of test tools were implemented, with FIO as the independent measurement, and the test duration was sustained for more than 8 hours.
Configuration: The Platform was configured to have 8 Data Manager (DM) instances and 8 Key-Value Store (KVS) instances, each running on standard, off-the-shelf, bare-metal servers. The configuration leveraged Mellanox SN2100 100Gb switches and ConnectX five NICs. Each DM consisted of Dual Xeon Gold 6140 processors @2.3GHz, and the KVS nodes consisted of Dual Xeon Gold 6134 processors @3.2GHz, each with 12 NVMe SSDs per server.
Results: The Platform has a combined performance of up to 80GB/s aggregate bandwidth, and to a single Linux client Stellus achieved 2GB/s of sustained write throughput.

“The Stellus Data Platform sets the new standard for data throughput and management of unstructured data. The results we’ve achieved with Alliance clearly demonstrate the benefit of the platform’s innovative scale-through design to satisfy the most demanding customer workloads,” said Bala Ganeshan, PhD, CTO and VP, engineering, Stellus. “The combination of Key-Value over Fabrics and application-specific Key-Value Store technologies is clearly the undeniable path for modern unstructured data management.“

“It’s great to see Stellus achieve this record-breaking scale-through performance in a software architecture that is easy to deploy, easy to scale, and easy to manage-without a lot of modifications on the client side. Stellus is a game changer for the industry,” said Mark Peters, senior analyst, Enterprise Strategy Group. “Where optimum single-client throughput matters-as it categorically does in industries such as Life Sciences, Internet of Things, and M&E-Stellus represents a welcome step-change in capability.”

Resources:
Testimonial video with Billy Russell, VP and CTO, Alliance Integrated Technology
Download the ESG technical validation report (registration required).

Read also:
Stellus Emerges From Stealth With Data Platform That Drives Massive Data Access Throughputs
Introduces Key-Value over Fabrics technology to accelerate performance for unstructured data. [with our comments]
February 5, 2020 | Press Release