Xinnor xiSTORE SDS Solution for HPC and AI Markets

Xinnor has unveiled xiSTORE, a SDS solution designed to meet the demands of HPC and AI workloads.

At the heart of xiSTORE is xiRAID, a fast RAID engineered to demand minimal CPU resources to deliver extreme performance. xiStore is a SDS with performance, designed for the HPC and AI market. It combines xiRAID with the Lustre FS clustered file system in a HA architecture based on commodity hardware to provide an efficient, flexible, and scalable storage infrastructure.

The system’s performance is optimized for HPC and AI workloads, supporting hybrid HDD and NVMe SSD configurations, ensuring integration with Lustre clustered file systems, VM management, and eliminating hardware lock-in. In addition to xiRAID for NVMe drives, xiSTORE employs a declustered RAID approach for HDD, which delivers drive rebuild times: up to 2.6x faster than ZFS and up to 10x faster than conventional RAID solutions.

xiSTORE supports multiple RAID configurations such as RAID-5, 6, 7.3, N+M/nested/declustered and is composed of dual-controller building blocks working in an HA cluster to eliminate single points of failure. To offer even more reliability, it supports a silent data corruption protection mechanism that scans and fixes silent data corruption errors in background, with insignificant performance loss.

Its scalability enables users to increase capacity by adding more JBODs to one node (scale-up) or enhance both capacity and performance by incorporating additional building blocks (scale-out).

xiSTORE is based on cost-effective off-the-shelf hardware, eliminating the vendor lock-in typical of monolithic proprietary solution and consequently reducing deployment costs and at the same time minimizing the time to adopt the latest and greatest available technology.

The company is going to present xiSTORE at the upcoming Supercomputing Conference (SC23) to be held in Denver, CO, from November 12-17.