Move to Incorporate Intel Platform Reflects Seagate’s HPC Systems
Focus and Momentum
Seagate Technology plc (NASDAQ: STX) today announced it will incorporate
Intel Enterprise Edition for Lustre® (IEEL), a big data
software platform, into its market-leading ClusterStor®
storage architecture for high-performance computing (HPC). The move will
strengthen Seagate’s HPC data storage product line and provide customers
with an additional choice of Lustre parallel file systems to help drive
advancements in the HPC and big data market.
Lustre software is a Linux-based, open-source parallel file system at
the heart of most HPC storage systems, and powers 40 percent of the
world’s fastest supercomputers. Seagate incorporates this software
within the broader Seagate ClusterStor architecture. To date, both
Seagate and Intel have managed their own Lustre distributions based on
the Open SFS community release, with both companies providing the
benefit of additional levels of testing and complementary software
capabilities.
Through this new collaboration, Seagate will now adopt IEEL as its
baseline Lustre distribution, bringing together the capabilities of the
two leading Lustre distributions, development and support teams. The
Lustre community, in turn, will benefit from two leading corporations
collaborating to further advance the Lustre community roadmap.
“This collaboration represents the leader in storage technology teaming
up with the leader in compute technology to drive innovation in the data
center,” said Ken Claffey, vice president and general manager, Seagate
HPC systems business. “Driving the growth of HPC is a key focus for both
companies. This focus reflects how we see the data center of the future
evolving — and together, we can achieve more. Intel’s commitment to the
development of Lustre is outstanding. Adopting Intel’s distribution will
help harmonize efforts, and benefit our customers and the community.”
Seagate will incorporate IEEL into ClusterStor L300, the industry’s
highest-performing Lustre software based storage architecture. Released
at Supercomputing 2015, the L300 delivers up to 112 gigabytes-per-second
(GB/sec) throughput per rack when integrated with Seagate’s ClusterStor
HPC drives, and includes features to help maximize reliability and
reduce data center footprint, power and cooling costs while simplifying
management and service. ClusterStor L300 with IEEL will also support
Intel’s Omni-Path network built for Exascale computing.
“As Lustre maintains its leadership position on Top500 platforms, this
agreement with Seagate will provide on-going collaboration and
innovation for the Lustre community from two industry leaders,” said
Brent Gorda, general manager of the High Performance Data Division at
Intel. “This will offer customers the benefits of the Intel®
Scalable System Framework using the parallel file system of choice for
HPC and data-intensive enterprise environments.”
“Lustre has been very strong in academia and government for some time.
As Lustre expands its presence in the private sector, it will continue
to evolve to meet a range of commercial needs for HPC simulation and
advanced data analytics,” said Steve Conway, IDC research vice
president, High Performance Computing. “IDC expects the collaboration
between trusted vendors Intel and Seagate to accelerate this evolution
of Lustre software for use in industrial production computing
environments.”
“Enterprises looking to manage and derive value from their data as it
explodes in volume, velocity and variety are increasingly turning to
HPC, but they need solutions that are easy to manage and can help them
quickly address business challenges,” said Bill Mannel, vice president
and general manager, HPC and Big Data, HP Servers. “This partnership
between Seagate and Intel nicely complements the HPC Alliance that HPE
and Intel announced last year, and will enable us to give our enterprise
customers access to the technologies and solutions — as well as the
intellectual property, portfolio services and engineering support —
necessary for evolving their compute infrastructure to capitalize on a
data-driven environment.”
“Cray is excited to see Seagate and Intel form an important partnership
on Lustre,” said Ryan Waite, Cray’s senior vice president of products.
“We believe this agreement will benefit both our customers and the
Lustre community, and we look forward to seeing new capabilities and new
opportunities for our storage products as a result of this partnership.”
“With some of the largest and most demanding Lustre customers in the
world using our Bull supercomputers, Atos is a long-standing Lustre
developer and has always backed the best solutions to improve the
service delivered to our customers,” said Eric Eppe, director of the
Storage & Data Management product line at Atos. “Having Seagate and
Intel working together on improving a single version of Lustre is going
to greatly simplify the support and the development of new features.
This is great news and we are standing behind Seagate and Intel to use
their products in our solutions for our customers.”
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