ActiveStor Parallel Storage Clusters
High Performance Computing techniques, once confined to the domain of government-funded laboratories, are now being deployed by commercial enterprise all over the globe to solve real world problems as wide ranging as finding deep water oil reserves to sequencing human genomes. Two common attributes run across all of these deployments; first,the volume of data being processed is vast and continually increasing, and second, the compute architecture being deployed is highly parallel. These factors have led to the need for data storage systems capable of handling very large volumes of data and serving that data at very high speed to parallel compute systems.
Panasas provides the most comprehensive family of parallel storage solutions available today for both primary and secondary storage applications. Every ActiveStor Parallel Storage Cluster is based on the leading PanFS™ Parallel File System and delivers exceptional performance, scalability and manageability.
Up to 20 TB of disk, 20 GB of cache and 600 MB/s from a single 4U shelf are tuned for modeling and visualization environments. Includes ActiveImage Snapshots and ActiveGuard High Availability Software.
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Up to 20 TB of disk and 600 MB/s from a single 4U shelf make the AS4000 ideal for simulation and analysis environments. Available options include High Performance XC storage blades, ActiveImage Snapshots and ActiveGuard High Availability software.
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104 TB in a half rack configuration delivering 350 MB/s make the AS200 the ideal secondary storage complement for either the AS6000 or AS4000.
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At the heart of the ActiveStor parallel storage cluster is the third generation ActiveScale OS with the PanFS parallel file system which turns files into smart data objects and then dynamically distributes data transfer operations across Panasas StorageBladeŽ modules. This object-based storage clustering architecture enables parallel data paths between StorageBlade modules and client nodes, eliminating the inherent performance and capacity bottlenecks of file systems based only on NFS. The ActiveScale OS also dramatically lowers the cost of managing data storage by supporting Terabytes (TBs) to Petabytes (PBs) of data capacity growth all within a single, easily managed namespace.
