OSNEXUS: Unify, Simplify, Automate

High-Performance Computing (HPC) differs dramatically from enterprise computing. Enterprise computing involves small file size movements which facilitate database, CRM, ERP, and supply chain management applications. On the contrary, HPC has large data sets, which run parallel across numerous servers to facilitate computationally intensive applications such as Monte Carlo simulations, CAE, Seismic Data Processing, computational fluid dynamics, optical design and 3D simulations. Without storage explicitly designed for HPC, the expensive servers starve for data and processing is delayed. Set to address such a situation is OSNEXUS offering its QuantaStor Software Defined- Storage (SDS) platform, which provides High-Performance Computing storage capabilities that scale with its unique storage grid architecture. “QuantaStor SDS provides IT architects with the latest in storage software and hardware capabilities so that any HPC solution can be designed specifically to meet extreme workload and storage traffic needs,” says Steven Umbehocker, Founder and CEO of OSNEXUS.

QuantaStor SDS provides HPC storage capabilities to scale up and out with its grid architecture, for increased I/O and capacity requirements. Leveraging open source file systems and protocols including NFS, CIFS, SMB, iSCSI, and ZFS, QuantaStor allows fast access to the large file, block, and object storage across multiple nodes for fast and efficient pure performance, dedicated computational scratch or multi-petabyte result set storage applications.

QuantaStor offers scalable all-flash and hybrid options allowing storage to be divided up and moved between network shares and pools of storage that are all-flash or a hybrid mix of SSD and HDD for high-performance and high-capacity storage. All-flash configurations are designed to deliver maximum IOPS and throughput numbers for mission-critical HPC workloads and applications. QuantaStor hybrid SAN/ NAS configurations combine HDD with SSD for read and write performance acceleration are ideal for HPC workloads. “We regularly test the latest hardware to bring the fastest storage configurations to HPC organizations,” says Umbehocker.

OSNEXUS’ QuantaStor SDS platform provides some of the most advanced storage system features HPC organizations need, including grid technology to link appliances together, support for Global Namespaces, next-generation networking hardware support, S3/SWIFT Object Storage, all-flash and hybrid storage configurations and end-to-end security features.