Infortrend EonStor GS Unified Scale-Out Storage Series for Enterprise HPC

Infortrend Technology, Inc. launches EonStor GS unified scale-out storage series for enterprise HPC applications. 

The series offers the flexibility of expanding to multiple GS systems for petabyte storage while increasing random and sequential R/W performance.

 When speaking of HPC, people think about supercomputers that crunch through massive data for Think Tanks or search engines. But not all HPCs are supercomputers, and research institutes and businesses are beginning to realize the benefits of HPCs can bring to academic and industrial applications. Areas such as gene analytics, meteorology research, geological structure analysis for oil and gas, etc.

 Designed to complement an HPC is the scale-out function of the EonStor GS, which plays a vital role. Scalable up to 4 systems, it allows initial deployment of a single GS U.2 system that supports U.2 NVMe SSDs with high IO/s. And as the data builds, these systems can be added to form a cluster where both the throughput and the storage capacity can be boosted.

The increased performance and capacity also allow for simultaneous processing of more complex tasks. And as for the processed data ready to be archived, additional HDD-based GS units with  petabyte level high-density capacity can be added for storage purposes.

On top of the high IO/s and expandable capacity, one other benefit of the scale-out function is that it retains the single namespace file system. The data/folder will remain in the same directory so none of the settings need to be changed for engineers to continue with their analysis. 

“By adding on additional units according to HPC’s performance/needs, the Infortrend EonStor GS unified scale-out series offers excellent performance and petabyte storage capabilities for enterprises and institutes to carry on with their work, efficiently and seamlessly,” said Frank Lee, senior director, product planning.