"The latest release of Panasas' ActiveScale operating environment and ActiveStor 5000 has enabled us to even further increase the productivity of our Linux cluster. Panasas continues to provide powerful solutions that address our demanding HPC cluster needs for ultra high performance, management, and reliability."

"The Panasas Storage Cluster enables our Linux cluster to have greater access to data. This improved cluster utilization directly results in the faster completion of jobs. We are improving the capabilities of our Linux cluster to process data, and therefore getting greater value from our cluster investment."

"Unlike a Fibre Channel SAN, which requires the purchase, installation and maintenance of many complex components, when you buy from Panasas, you buy one integrated system. You just plug it in and it's ready to go."

"Every processor in our architecture is now running at peak performance. The resulting parallelism is delivering a 6X performance improvement in our environment."

"With other solutions, we were forced to trade off manageability and flexibility for greater performance. With Panasas, we can get it all."

"To do the type of multi-scale processes that we're doing in geophysics, we need a machine that's tailor-made and dedicated to running our code exclusively. This new machine has already gone beyond our expectations."

"It's a smoker. The cluster is now solving large-scale geophysical imaging problems, providing critical information on subsurface geological processes with implications for energy and the environment from characterizing hazardous waste sites to exploring for hydrocarbons and geothermal resources."

"We needed robust, production-ready storage to replace older, end-of-life storage products. It was imperative that the new solution would perform reliably as we increase our data-intensive applications. Previously, we had to add more disk systems to gain additional bandwidth, but our new Panasas storage provides ample bandwidth along with its storage and has considerably reduced our storage footprint and administration time."

"The Panasas Storage Cluster stood out with its ability to deliver exceptional performance in both data bandwidth and random I/O."

"Most companies excel in one performance criteria or another, but Panasas does both."

"We looked at other solutions, but Panasas was by far the easiest to deploy."

"Panasas has allowed us to speed our processing capabilities by a factor of 10."

"We’re confident in knowing that not only will the Panasas system grow to meet our capacity requirements, but we'll get a boost in performance as well."

"It is great to manage our entire cluster storage via a single console. It frees our administrators to work on creating additional customer value."

"Turnaround time and the quality of our work are competitive strengths for Geotrace. Obviously with thousands of nodes in the cluster, we'd like to use as many nodes as possible to process information faster and deliver results sooner. Unfortunately, NFS made our environment more complicated in trying to keep the cluster busy. Panasas storage with DirectFLOW™ alleviated many hurdles we encountered with NFS in the past. Now we can stop solving system issues and focus on the challenges of imaging for our oil and gas customers."

"In order for our HPC data infrastructure environment to stay High-performance, we needed a High-performance Support environment, requiring fast Support interaction with fast debugging/analyzing techniques. And that is what we were able to find with the Panasas parallel storage team."

"For the massive parallel I/O demand of our high throughput BioInformatics applications, Panasas ActiveStor was the only storage solution that could meet our performance needs."

"We've been using Panasas storage for a long time at LANL to provide scalable and globally-shared storage to multiple terascale clusters. We will leverage our successful, scalable, and stable Panasas storage solution to provide the I/O solution for the Roadrunner system. The Roadrunner system with its hybrid architecture will be a big challenge for LANL and the entire supercomputing community. It makes sense for us to leverage our existing and highly productive Panasas solution for LANL's Roadrunner system."

"Los Alamos National Laboratory has deployed more than one petabyte of Panasas ActiveScale Storage, so we have been looking forward to the new capabilities of ActiveScale 3.0. We were particularly interested in the new higher single client bandwidth, RAID upgrades, parallel reconstruction, and background health monitoring of the storage. The higher single client bandwidth capability in ActiveScale 3.0 will help accommodate larger individual compute nodes within our terascale and upcoming Roadrunner petascale supercomputers."

"Working with the National Nuclear Security Administration, Panasas and other partners, we are helping to usher in the era of the commodity-based supercomputer."

"High-performance computing environments require high-performance data access and data storage. We are using Panasas' scalable parallel file systems and high-bandwidth storage solutions to build Linux-based HPC clusters for our demanding applications."

"We set a lofty goal of using a next-generation Linux cluster for our capacity computing needs to achieve an unparalleled price-performance advantage … we evaluated more than a dozen proposals for storage as part of this effort, it became clear that Panasas offered the best value. Panasas is now a key storage partner helping Los Alamos build high performance, yet low cost Linux-based supercomputers."

"In terms of price/performance and total value, Panasas is the best storage solution we’ve found to meet the evolving needs of our HPC environment. With the Panasas solution we have significantly increased the speed with which we conduct our research projects, and maximized the overall productivity of our researchers."

"After an exhaustive search, it was clear that Panasas delivers the fastest storage system in the industry. The significant performance improvements provided by the Panasas Storage Cluster allow us to focus on what we do best, interpreting seismic data and generating new business opportunities."

"Out of the box, the system was integrated effortlessly into our infrastructure."

"The Panasas team has been extremely helpful in sharing best practices for the entire cluster computing solution. Their insight has been invaluable in enabling us to achieve our key business goals."

"We evaluated competitive storage, but Panasas ActiveStor was the only solution that would meet our objectives for performance, throughput, and ease of management."

"We utilize Panasas parallel storage throughout the world and it is a valued component of our seismic processing system. The Panasas Tiered Parity offerings will help us to ensure reliability in meeting the needs of our oil and gas exploration customers."

"Unlike most high-end storage products, the Panasas storage system is very easy to install, manage and upgrade. It has been extremely stable and is the only high-performance plug-and-play solution that met our diverse needs. When issues do arise, Panasas support personnel have been extremely responsive. Panasas is very flexible and easy to work with."

"While the workflow is constantly changing, we now have consistent performance and greater flexibility to run more demanding jobs."

"We looked at a variety of storage systems, but there was no compelling case to purchase any of them until we evaluated the Panasas Parallel Storage Cluster."

"Seismic data processing is highly competitive and our goal is always to help clients meet their exploration objectives faster and more cost efficiently. The large data sets with which we work require very high bandwidth in order to process data as fast as possible. After evaluating several storage products, none offered the compelling performance and ease-of-management that we receive with Panasas. The Panasas DirectFLOW data path allows us to avoid partitioning the cluster with expensive connections in order to keep up with our heavy bandwidth requirements."

"Panasas has developed a unique product whose record-setting performance, scalability and ease in management are unmatched in the industry."

"The object-based Panasas storage solution totally turns things around by giving us the things we were looking for—high performance, expansibility, stability, dependability, and simplified management. Panasas storage has resolved the bottleneck problems and provided us with greater cluster performance for achieving our computing goals."

"The system is blazing fast, we've been able to eliminate our I/O bottleneck so researchers can analyze data more quickly.... The product is 'plug-and-play' at all levels. Our team doesn't have to think about it at all. We can just do our work."

"At the end of the day, data availability and integrity is essential to do our job. Panasas proved itself to be more than reliable enough for our environment."

"Sinopec has been impressed by the performance, simple installation process, and overall ease-of-use of the Panasas storage solutions. Compared to the formerly deployed NAS and SAN storage systems, the Panasas storage clusters provide the ease of installation, simplicity of management, and savings in IT overhead costs, that allow us to focus on critical seismic analysis."

"Panasas’ ActiveStor Parallel Storage Cluster has helped Stanford’s HPC center win this prestigious award by dramatically improving our ability to tackle complex simulations and speed results that were not possible with previous storage solutions."

"Stanford’s HPC center was able to integrate Panasas parallel storage into the Center’s infrastructure in less than two hours, with minimal administrative requirements. We now receive accelerated results across a variety of complex scientific applications. With Panasas, large-scale storage clusters can be assembled and running within days instead of weeks or months."

"The Panasas shelf integration was 1 hour 55 minutes from the time I opened the first box to fully operational status on the cluster."

"I found dramatic performance improvements with the Panasas file system, PanFS. Using NFS under the old system resulted in 17.80 Mbytes/second for concurrent writes using NDS with eight dual-processor jobs. Using PanFS results in 154 Mbyte/s."

"The Panasas shelf integration was 1 hour 55 minutes from the time I opened the first box to fully operational status on the cluster."

"Previously, we had to limit the growth of our clusters because of I/O issues. With the object-based architecture, we are empowered to build the largest, fastest clusters possible. With Panasas, we now have a shared storage resource that can scale in both capacity and performance."

"With Panasas, my throughput has risen from about 18M bytes per second to between 150M to 190M bytes per second, with very little management required. It's almost as simple as managing a set of hard drives connected to a RAID adapter."

"Panasas helps simplify this problem by allowing the developer to assume that each node in a parallel application can go direct to storage with great performance. This eliminates the need for 'I/O Nodes' found in many parallel applications that are dedicated to servers that are meant to handle storage access."

"By leveraging an object-based architecture, ICME was able to completely eliminate storage bottlenecks and can build larger, faster clusters because of a shared storage resource that can scale in both capacity and performance. Because of direct node-to-disk access, ICME is taking advantage of as much as a 30X increase in data throughput for its compute- and data-intensive applications."

"With the Panasas high-speed storage, we can add nodes, run more jobs, and run them faster than we could with the NFS. Panasas solved our pain point, which was I/O."

"The NFS servers had 85 to 90 percent CPU, memory and I/O utilization, while the Panasas system had three to four percent utilization. As we added capacity, the system got faster and we never had I/O wait time."

"The Panasas Storage Cluster arrived in three boxes on one pallet. From the time I clipped the first band on the pallet to having the system fully operational was only 1 hour 55 minutes."

"With our Panasas Storage Cluster, we have been able to achieve significant improvement in performance. While other products forced us to make trade-offs, the Panasas system delivers exceptional performance, but also excellent manageability and value."

"We are extremely pleased with the performance gains achieved by the Panasas system. With other products, we were forced to make trade-offs, but with the Panasas system, we were able to get a complete package of everything we needed."

"The Panasas solution has increased our processing capability significantly by providing parallel data paths directly between the server nodes and the storage system. We’ve literally halved the time that our system spent on processing all the SAR data. Within five minutes of installing the Panasas ActiveStor Storage cluster we could see all clients and all data."

"With the Panasas Storage Cluster and its object-based architecture, we are able to simultaneously read from and write to all cluster nodes."

"The consistently high I/O performance delivered by the Panasas solution enables our researchers to get their results more quickly. By using the Panasas DirectFLOW® protocol we’ve been able to eliminate our I/O bottleneck."

"After evaluating several solutions, it was clear that Panasas had the most comprehensive offering."

"The Panasas I/O performance is extremely high. We've eliminated our I/O bottleneck to complete our computations more quickly. In fact, the Panasas system has cut the job times for the computation of protein interactions, one of our most I/O intensive projects, from 40 hours to less than 8 hours."

"Panasas parallel storage and the PanFS parallel file system will bring a level of I/O performance and scalability to our facility that will place Holland Computing Center among the most elite in the world."

"Parallel storage based on pNFS is the next evolution beyond clustered NFS storage and the best way for the industry to solve storage and I/O performance bottlenecks. Panasas was the first to identify the need for a production grade, standard parallel file system and has unprecedented experience in deploying commercial parallel storage solutions."

"Panasas is unique in that they have extensive experience deploying very large storage systems to a broad range of commercial and government customers who have strict requirements on reliability and data integrity. Tiered-Parity builds on Panasas' RAID expertise and further extends their leadership by providing reliability features built to protect peta-scale storage systems."

"We continue to be impressed with just how rapidly the Linux cluster market is taking off. The new compute paradigm will need a matching new storage methodology, and what we've seen from Panasas so far puts them in a very elite group capable of taking a leadership role. So far, I like the way Panasas thinks."

"Panasas has all the components we're looking for in the next generation of storage players. Having an industry icon like Garth Gibson lends huge credibility to their team."

"Panasas has done something that very very few other vendors have done from a support perspective and we are very impressed. Their web site allows users to log in to their own portal called MyPanasas. Panasas is serious about making it very easy to do business with them in a very user-friendly fashion."

"Panasas has spent a good deal of time focusing on a product that caters to the performance requirements of the Linux cluster community by developing a product that provides these clusters a direct path to a large data set."

"Previous Panasas products were frequently used to optimize data access for individual applications, Panasas is now broadening its appeal to HPC cluster managers who are seeking those benefits across their end-to-end workflow."

"By its nature, technical computing generates significant requirements for data storage systems in terms of volume, scalability and performance. Adoption of clustered storage systems that meet these technical computing requirements will most likely grow in parallel with cluster deployments."

"Customers looking for scalable storage solutions to match their ultra high performance compute (HPC) Linux infrastructure needs require scalability in terms of performance, capacity, reliability and ease of management. ActiveScale 3.0 software enables customers to address a wider range of applications and their associated storage performance requirements."

"Panasas has identified a significant need in cluster computing environments and is meeting that need with exceptional results. Industries such as oil and gas, that rely on high performance computing, can now benefit from a high performance storage solution. I continue to be extremely impressed with the technology and execution at Panasas."