DataDirect Delivers Silicon Storage Appliance for Use with World's Fastest Linux
Supercomputer at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
DataDirect Delivers Silicon Storage Appliance for Use with World's Fastest Linux
Supercomputer at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Deal is First Between the Two Companies to Supply Appliance-Based SAN Technology
for Linux NetworX Supercomputing Systems
LOS ANGELES - August 6, 2002 - DataDirect Networks, the leading provider of the
world's highest performance storage networking appliances, has announced that
Linux NetworX will be using a Silicon Storage Appliance as part of their new
Linux-based supercomputer to be deployed at Lawrence Livermore National
Laboratory. DataDirect's S2A 6000 will manage the terabytes of metadata
resulting from the 962 node Evolocity (tm) clustered supercomputer.
Lawrence Livermore has selected Linux NetworX, a recognized leader in the Linux
clustering industry, to design, integrate and deliver what will be the most
powerful Linux supercomputer by Fall 2002, and when delivered, the Intel-based
cluster is expected to be one of the five fastest supercomputers in the world.
DataDirect has strong track record supporting Lawrence Livermore supercomputing
programs, with fifteen S2A 6000 Silicon Storage Appliances currently in
mission-critical production environments at the facility.
"In creating a 962 node supercomputing system that involves a variety of top
tier hardware, software and integration, management issues become extremely
important in development and after deployment," Clark Roundy, vice president of
marketing, Linux NetworX, said. "DataDirect's Silicon Storage Appliance brings
us an enterprise-class high performance SAN solution for file system metadata
management."
"Silicon Storage Appliances make it easy for the IT professionals to deploy and
scale open system, high performance storage area network infrastructures in a
cost-effective, modular approach," Brad Winett, vice president, business
development, DataDirect Networks, said. "DataDirect's groundbreaking storage
networking technology helps enable the Linux NetworX Evolocity cluster to
provide high-performance computing organizations faster results with lower total
cost of ownership than competing supercomputing systems, and we see a tremendous
opportunity for our two technologies to serve researchers in this market."
Bringing a simple and straightforward approach to supporting supercomputing uses
in visualization, simulation and research, Silicon Storage Appliances provide
high performance computing centers a way to accelerate application productivity,
providing data at least three times faster than existing Storage Area Networking
(SAN) solutions and ten times faster than Network Attached Storage (NAS)
technology. The acceleration of data to applications and users -- simply and
easily -- allows DataDirect Networks' customers to consolidate and share their
storage; Silicon Storage Appliances also bring management advantages to IT
professionals tasked with implementing 24/7/365 storage networking foundations.
With the ability to supply an aggregate bandwidth of 800 megabytes per second
and support up to 512 servers and 180 Terabytes of storage, the S2A 6000 Silicon
Storage Appliance brings performance and scalability benefits to scientific and
commercial supercomputing centers. By using DataDirect's S2A 6000 Silicon
Storage Appliances in a modular fashion to cluster nodes and create larger
computational grids, IT professionals can begin to create highly scalable,
easy-to manage terascale supercomputing systems for a wide range of scientific,
industrial and government supercomputing applications.
Based on DataDirect Networks' proven Silicon Storage Appliance technology, S2A
3000 Silicon Storage Appliances supply an aggregate bandwidth up to 800
megabytes per second to workgroups typically consisting of one to twenty-four
Linux, Unix, Windows NT/2000, Sun, AIX, Macintosh and SGI compute nodes. The
S2A 3000 can easily manage storage network environments ranging in capacity from
500 GB to 14 Terabytes.
Customers using DataDirect's Silicon Storage Appliances include Sandia National
Laboratories, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories, NASA, NCSA, the National
Center for Atmospheric Research, NOAA Forecast Systems Lab, U.S. Army Research
Lab, White Sands Missile Range, National Century Financial Enterprises, Time
Warner Cable, E! Networks, CineGroupe, RTL Television, CardioNow, Loudeye, Star
TV, Sonic Foundry, among others. DataDirect SAN partnerships include industry
leaders VERITAS Software, Seagate, Emulex and QLogic, among others.
About DataDirect Networks, Inc.
DataDirect Networks is the leader in the rapidly growing market for intelligent
storage networking appliances. Serving IT professionals in the government,
defense, life sciences, broadcasting, digital production and oil and gas
industries, DataDirect Networks' Silicon Storage Appliances make it easy, simple
and trouble-free to accelerate and manage applications, dramatically reducing
TCO and increasing ROI. For more information, contact DataDirect Networks at
(818) 700-7600 or visit www.datadirectnet.com.
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Silicon Storage Appliance is a trademark of DataDirect Networks, Inc. ©2002
DataDirect Networks, Inc. All other names are property of their respective
owners.
Contact: Jim Hughes, Senior Manager, Corporate Communications, DataDirect
Networks Inc., (818) 700-7655, jhughes@datadirectnet.com
