The foundation for the Panasas ActiveStor parallel storage solutions is the Panasas ActiveScale operating environment that includes the PanFS parallel file system. Now in its third generation, the ActiveScale file system turns files into smart data objects and then dynamically distributes data activity across Panasas StorageBlade modules. This object-based storage clustering architecture enables parallel data paths between StorageBlade modules and clients (Linux cluster nodes, application servers or workstations) and eliminates the inherent performance and capacity bottlenecks of traditional file systems. The result is that the Panasas ActiveScale storage solutions deliver an order of magnitude improvement in throughput and random I/O performance over leading alternatives. The ActiveScale operating environment also dramatically lowers the cost of managing data storage by supporting Terabytes (TB) to Petabytes (PB) of data capacity growth all within a single, easily managed namespace. The third generation of the industry leading object-based parallel storage solution for HPC brings greater performance and new predictive self-management capabilities to the Panasas ActiveStor Storage Clusters.

• Performance enhancements to PanFS parallel file system enable even faster time to results
• ActiveScan detects and corrects potential media defects and preemptively moves data from a potentially malfunctioning StorageBlade module to other StorageBlade modules to eliminate the need for data reconstruction
• Parallel Reconstruction allows a complete rebuild of a failed disk up to 10 times faster than traditional RAID controllers
• Predictive Self-Management provides resilience and continuous performance through health-monitoring and self-healing technologies

Panasas now offers comprehensive storage solutions for all HPC environments with the highest bandwidth and I/O performance; scalable capacity; and simple unified management in an integrated software and hardware solution. The ActiveScale Operating Environment is extremely robust and has been proven in hundreds of Linux cluster installations around the globe.