Press Release
TERASCALA INTRODUCES PARALLEL FILE SYSTEM APPLIANCE
LEVERAGING LSI ENGENIO STORAGE TECHNOLOGY
DTS 4000 offers high performance, reliability, and simplicity in a large scale, parallel file system appliance
AVON, MA - May 20, 2009 - Terascala, Inc., a provider of high throughput, high capacity storage appliances today announced the Terascala™ DTS 4000, the world’s first large scale Lustre™ appliance. The DTS 4000 combines Terascala’s expertise in parallel file systems and storage appliance development with highly scalable and reliable storage technology from LSI Corporation to deliver the highest levels of data integrity and application performance.
Designed as an integrated whole and built using an exclusive, modular approach, the DTS 4000 is architected for the highest levels of performance, capacity, and flexibility. Deployed with the production proven, open source, Lustre file system, the DTS 4000 is designed to increase application performance, maximize system reliability, and simplify the user experience. It is the industry’s first solution to bring appliance simplicity to large scale, high performance, parallel storage systems.
“We believe that the combination of the Terascala parallel file system expertise and the production proven experience of the LSI™ Engenio® 7900 HPC storage system will enable HPC customers to achieve the performance and data reliability they require without having to make tradeoffs or sacrifice ease of use,” said Steve Hochberg, Senior Director, Worldwide HPC Segment, LSI Corporation. “The Terascala DTS 4000 brings a new class of appliance to customers concerned about maximizing the utilization of their processing environments while working to provide uninterrupted data access and superior data protection.”
Key features of the DTS 4000 include:
High data throughput: 1.6 GB/sec per Object Store pair over InfiniBand or 10GB Ethernet, linearly scalable
High performance metadata: Up to 15,000 file creates per second.
Data Integrity: Supports parity on read and controller cache mirroring with disk caching disabled.
High reliability: No single point of failure throughout the system. Includes active-standby metadata and active-active object stores, redundant storage controllers, battery backup, and rapid failover technologies.
High capacity: Up to 480 drives per Performance Object Module configured as hardware assisted RAID 6, scalable to petabytes of total storage capacity.
Simplicity: Designed and delivered as a fully configured appliance. Setup, deployment, and ongoing management administered through a common set of tools.
Based on a newly announced OEM partnership agreement with LSI, the Terascala DTS 4000 leverages the LSI Engenio 7900 HPC storage system. The 7900 HPC storage system combines seventh-generation XBB2 architecture with industry-leading performance and advanced availability and reliability features to ensure continuous high-speed data accessibility and protection across a wide range of HPC environments.
"Increasingly, users of large scale storage solutions connected to high performance computing infrastructures are required to deliver maximum performance for applications while guaranteeing the long term integrity of the data they are storing,” said Larry Genovesi, CEO of Terascala, Inc. "The LSI storage technology forms the base that enables us to meet customer requirements with a cost-effective, reliable, high performance solution.”
The DTS 4000 is available now. Contact Terascala at 508-588-1501 or www.terascala.com for additional information.
About Terascala
Terascala develops high throughput, high capacity, cost-effective parallel storage appliances. Delivering data over either Ethernet or InfiniBand networks and leveraging the open source Lustre® file system, Terascala’s unique storage appliance approach is changing the dynamics of the performance driven computing market, enabling existing users to do more for less while enabling new users to maximize the capabilities of their processing infrastructure.
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