Huawei Unveils New OceanStor Systems for HPC Clouds
November 23, 2013
Grazed from InfoStor. Author: Pedro Hernadez.
Huawei, a Chinese provider of IT and telecommunications systems and services, is looking to help high performance computing (HPC) organizations cloudify their workloads with its new storage systems. The company’s OceanStor storage line is now home to the new flagship 18000 series. The high performance systems help organizations bring the capacity-maximizing benefits of the cloud to their HPC environments, according to Huawei Enterprise USA’s COO, Jane Li.
Li argued in company remarks that "HPC cluster silos are giving way to HPC clouds." IDC’s data backs her up. In an email to InfoStor, a company representative cited IDC research revealing "that the proportion of sites exploiting cloud computing for part of their HPC workloads rose from 13.8 percent in 2011 to 23.5 percent in 2013."…
The US launch of new, range-topping OceanStor 18000 enables HPC architects to deploy "a single enterprise storage system that can be tailored to support multiple HPC workloads," added Li. Huawei’s OceanStor 18500 and 18800 storage systems have Big Data covered with built-in support for Hadoop, the popular open source platform. The systems can be decked out with up to 16 controllers, 192 network ports and 3 TB of cache. In total, they can accommodate 3,216 drives, hard disks or solid-state drives (SSDs) and support up to 65,536 LUNs…
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