DDN | EXAScaler™

Extremely Scalable Petascale Research

With EXAScaler, TiTech improved throughput performance 180% to support their 2.4 Petaflop Tsubame supercomputer.

DDN | EXAScaler™

Enabling Next-Gen Genomic Sequencing

Driven by the demanding requirements of Illumina® sequencers, Sanger relies on EXAScaler to deliver over 30GB/s & petabytes of capacity today - and to effortlessly scale for tomorrow's requirements.

DDN | EXAScaler™

Accelerating Discovery Seismic Processing

Positioning for tremendous growth, EXAScaler is the infrastructure that allows this oil and gas company to increase seismic computation by 10-100x.

DDN | EXAScaler™

Hyperscale Performance Supercharged Supercomputing

With a total infrastructure deployment that ranges many 100GB/s & 10s of Petabytes of capacity, DDN's SFA systems accelerate petascale science.

Contact DDN Sales
 
Please fill out the form below, email sales@ddn.com, or call toll-free at 1.800.837.2298 or international at 1.818.700.7600.

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  • Brochure | EXAScaler™

    Parallel File Storage Appliance. The massively scalable parallel file system and NAS solution.

  • Brochure | SFA™12K-20E

    No external servers. The file system lives right inside of the world's fastest storage controller.

  • Brochure | DirectMon™ Management

    Advanced configuration & monitoring solution to simplify management and optimize IT operations.

  • Brochure | SFA™12K Storage Engine

    Largest building block option with the highest performance & capacity storage.

  • Brochure | SFA™10K-M Storage Engine

    Scalable performance & capacity storage option. Start small & scale as requirements grow

  • Brochure | S2A6620™ Storage Engine

    Smallest, most affordable storage building block option.

  • Brochure | ScalerServer

    Pre-configured, Optimized, Fully Integrated

  • Whitepaper | Accelerating Collaboration for Life Science

  • Intersect 360: DDN Solutions for Seismic Processing

    Whitepaper | Oil & Gas

    Intersect 360: DDN Solutions for Seismic Processing

  • Solution Brief | Academia

    Cutting-edge research initiatives benefit from highperformance, scalable and collaborative storage solutions from DDN.

  • Solution Brief | Financial Analysis

    GRIDScaler accelerates tick data & simulations.

  • BioPharma Solution Brief

    Solution Brief | BioPharma

    Eliminate bottlenecks & speed time to results

  • Solution Brief | Genomics

    High Performance, Highly Scalable Solutions that Accelerate Time to Discovery & Simplify Your Workflow

  • Intersect 360: DDN Solutions for Seismic Processing
  • BioPharma Solution Brief
  • DDN Ramps Up for Exascale at SC12

    Jeff Denworth from Data Direct Networks describes the company's high performance storage solutions for HPC. Used by 60 percent of the TOP100 supercomputers in the works, DDN recently announced a $100 Million dollar investment in Exascale technologies.

  • DDN | Chalk Talk: DirectMon

    DDN Product Marketing provides an architectural review of DirectMon, our new Big Data infrastructure management tool.

  • Fast Data Webinar

    Introducing the SFA12K, the world's fastest storage & compute platform for Big Data

  • Lustre Live Series Webinar

    Brent Gorda, (CEO, Whamcloud) and other industry leaders discuss Lustre's roadmap.

  • NOAA on Accelerating Critical Research Video

    How NOAA keeps citizens informed of the changing environment around them from the surface of the sun to the depths of th...

  • BBC News | DDN Powers Petabytes of Sanger Institutes DNA Research Video

    See how Sanger accelerates time to discovery as they race for cures to disease.

  • CNN Money | ORNL's Jaguar

    Take a look inside ORNL as DDN powers the USA's fastest supercomputer.

  • Accelerating Results for Financial Services Webinar

    Storage is a major factor in time to results. Learn how to accelerate and gain competitive advantage.

  • EXAScaler™

    Providing pure performance and massive scalability for HPC applications...

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  • hScaler

    The World's First Enterprise Apache™ Hadoop® Appliance

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  • GRIDScaler™

    Extreme performance and scalability, advanced data management and NAS export capabilities...

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  • NAS Scaler™

    The scale right enterprise file storage solution...

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  • xSTREAMScaler™

    Professional Media file storage and HSM system...

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  • SFA12K™-40

    40GB/s InfiniBand Storage Appliance

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  • SFA12™-20E

    Serverless File Storage Appliance

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  • SFA12K™-20

    20GB/s InfiniBand Storage Appliance

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  • SFA10K-X™

    Fusing unprecedented IOPS and bandwidth performance with highly efficient capacity management, the SFA10K-X is designed ...

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  • SFA10K-E™

    Revolutionizing the way data centers architect their IT infrastructure, the SFA10K-E is the...

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  • SFA10K-M™

    Today, both the number and types of organizations using HPC and analytics applications is rapidly growing...

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  • SFA7700

    The Hybrid Flash Storage Appliance with Application-Acceleration to Maximize Big Data Insights

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  • S2A9900

    Accelerate workflows, collaborate and run multiple applications and data streams simultaneously...

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  • S2A6620

    What will you do in 4U? Providing DDN's legendary multiples of performance, capacity and reliability...

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  • WOS®

    WOS allows organizations to easily build and deploy their own storage clouds...

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  • WOS® Access

    Distributed users collaborate at local speeds using NAS protocols.

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  • WOS® Cloud

    Turn-key solutions for providing storage-as-a-service.
     

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  • WOS® Share

    Behind your firewall enterprise file sharing, transfer & collaboration.

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DDN | EXAScaler™ Lustre® File System Appliance

Massively Scalable, High Performance, Open Source Lustre® File System Appliance

HPC applications that require massive throughput and highly parallel access are challenging traditional SAN and NAS storage technologies. Storage systems designed to serve the needs of the last 10 years are no longer able to deliver the scalable bandwidth and file system locking capabilities required by today's HPC environments. To satisfy these requirements, an extremely high performance approach which integrates file system and storage media into one extremely high performance file storage appliance is needed. This approach would solve both today's requirements and scale to accommodate the unpredictable growth of Big Data in the future.

EXAScaler, is a next generation parallel file storage system appliance that combines DDN award-winning HPC storage technology with the open-source Lustre® File System. DDN has leveraged its leadership in supporting the world's largest file storage systems for over a decade to combine these best of breed storage technologies into a tightly integrated, easy to use single appliance that delivers scalable, clustered storage performance. Built by the HPC experts, and supported by the world's most skilled parallel I/O team, the EXAScaler blueprint is known worldwide as the gold standard in HPC storage clustering and powers the largest number of Top500® Supercomputer Sites, worldwide.

Applications

  • Supercomputing Maximizes Return on Investment by ensuring clusters spend more time computing and less time doing IO
  • Research Universities Handles multi-researcher mixed workload to reduce research cycle times and get the highest performance per $
  • Oil & Gas Shortens "time To oil" by accelerating seismic processing algorithms
  • Government Intelligence World's fastest storage system for image/motion capture, in-theater reconnaissance
  • BioPharma Accelerates development pipeline and reduces time to market for new drugs
  • Life Sciences Accelerates sequencing, research and reduces time to discovery...
  • Ease of Management and Deployment

    • Arrives at your door as a fully configured appliance that makes Lustre simple to deploy and manage
    • Consolidates storage hardware, RAID, operating system, data protection features and the Lustre file system into a single, easy to use platform
    • No cables or external servers required
    • Delivers the flexibility to choose the right deployment model – from external servers and interconnect to DDN | In-Storage Processing™ that lowers TCO
    • Reduces Lustre deployments from weeks to hours
  • Scalable Appliance Eliminates Complexity

    • Allows seamless & simple expansion on demand:
      • Individually scale-out performance by adding: EXAScaler file serving nodes
      • Individually scale-up capacity by adding DDN high density disk enclosures
    • Provides large scale building blocks to architect hyperscale file systems with the least number of components
    • Enables building a solution based on your budget for optimized & predictable TCO
  • Supercharged Blueprint

    • Combines DDN's award winning storage technology with the open-source Lustre File System
    • Blueprint that is known worldwide as the gold standard in HPC storage
    • Eliminates vendor lock in
    • Thriving open source community consisting of OpenSFS, European Open File System and Intel's Whamcloud™
    • Impressive track record and roadmap of enhancements to Lustre scalability, reliability and data management features
  • Designed for Scale

    • Powers more of the world's fastest file systems than any other solution
    • Supports scalable volume and namespace – from a few TBs to greater that 10PB volumes
    • Supports scalable bandwidth – From a few MB/s to TB/s of performance
    • Supports scalable connectivity
      • Seamlessly scale from a single client to 20,000 clients concurrently accessing storage
      • Get over 3.5 GB/sec from a single client
      • Stripe files and directories across multiple OSSs
    • Supports scalable resiliency – no single point of failure, add multiple paths to storage with additional data servers
  • Intelligent Parallel File System Clients

    • Designed for highly concurrent access with massive parallelism
    • Accelerates application performance by striping data across multiple enclosures and accessing them in parallel
    • Automatically load balances across all resources
    • Scales from 10s to 10,000s of Clients
    • Supports RDMA communication & large packets
    • Makes best use of high performance networks
    • Ideal for highly concurrent file/directory access
  • Centralized Configuration and Monitoring

    DirectMon™

    • Manage large EXAScaler deployments from a single point
    • Drill-down support for the file system, DDN storage arrays as well as other DDN products
    • Discover new systems, collect information, setup, add & configure complete systems
    • Monitor alerts, get statistics & historical trends
    • Create roles, additional users & assign appropriate levels of authorizations to fit your organizations' hierarchy

    Chroma™

    • Manage smaller deployments using an intuitive browser-based interface for creating and managing EXAScaler
    • Point-and-click simplicity to configure a cluster in minutes
    • Monitor & manage the entire storage cluster
  • Simple, Rapid Deployment

    Arrives as a fully configured appliance, performance tuned & optimized

  • Massive Scalability

    Support 1,000s of clients, 100s of GB/s of bandwidth and dozens of Petabytes of capacity

  • Parallel Architecture

    Most efficient use of compute resources

  • Designed for Concurrency

    Single, massive namespace simplifies management

  • Enterprise Class Reliability

    Proven & in production in more of the Top100® Supercomputing Sites than all other storage vendors combined

  • Real-time Data Integrity Checks

    Ensures your valuable data is stored accurately & protected

Scale Performance & Capacity Independently Eliminates overprovisioning, reducing complexity & TCO.

DDN | DirectMon™

Enables you to manage one or dozens of DDN systems from a single point.

SCALE YOUR ENVIRONMENT FOR BIG DATA GROWTH IN 3 DIFFERENT INCREMENTS

 

DDN | Massively Scalable & Flexible Configurations

We will help you select the right scalable building block that meets your application requirements, data growth & budget.

Modular

Mid-Range

Highest Performance

Each building block provides:
Bandwidth 2GB/s 6GB/s 40GB/s
IOPS 330,000 1 Million 1.4 Million
Capacity up to: 480TB up to: 720TB up to: 6.6PB
Hard Drives 120 180 1,680

DDN's Hyperscale platform allows you to scale performance beyond 1TB/s & capacity into 100s of Petabytes with the fewest systems.

DDN | In-Storage Processing™

The SFA10K-M & SFA12K configurations provide a server-less option, where the file system is embedded right inside the storage controller.

Advantages

  • Consolidates Hardware
  • Simplifies Management
  • Reduces TCO

How to Buy DDN Storage Systems & Solutions are available through a variety of channels:

Direct DDN's Worldwide Presales Team of Account Managers and Systems Engineers will assess your business objectives and technical requirements and prescribe a EXAScaler solution that fits your needs and budget.

OEM System Providers The world's largest technology companies provide DDN Storage as individual systems or as part of a larger integrated solution.

Resellers and Integrators Specialized VARs and System Integrators provide DDN Storage as individual systems or as part of a larger integrated solution.

Contact sales@ddn.com and we will work with you to understand your needs and determine the best source.

Contact DDN Sales Please fill out the form below, email sales@ddn.com or call toll-free at 1.800.837.2298 or International at 1.818.700.7600


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The Challenge:

TiTech needed to evolve their Tsubame supercomputer architecture to support petascale applications, increase cluster & storage capacity and deliver the highest quality of service to their supercomputer users in the international research community.

The Solution:

DDN & HP delivered the massively scalable DDN | EXAScaler to deliver over 60GB/s of shared file system throughput to support a ~2.4 Petaflop resource. Improvements include:

  • Performance: 180% faster than previous system
  • Reliability: True active-active, fault-tolerant storage technology

 

The Challenge:

ORNL required an extremely scalable, high performing storage solution for the Jaguar supercomputer to enable Petascale genomics research

The Solution:

At 240GB/s, DDN delivered the world's most scalable bio-informatics storage solution to run on the United State’s fastest supercomputer.

The Challenge

Driven by business opportunities, this oil and gas company needed to scale production operations and increase their seismic computation by 10X. This required an advanced technology that would be capable of providing a significant increase in performance and scale requirements for their backend storage.

The Solution

DDN deployed EXAScaler, serving as their infrastructure which will enable substantial growth of their production operations, making them ready for a 10-100x increase in seismic computations in the future.

The Challenge

Driven by the rapid increase in both data & performance requirements of the next-gen Illumina sequencers, Sanger needed an infrastructure upgrade to support this new genomics technology.

The Solution

Sanger procured 3 SFA10K systems to power a scale-out, QDR InfiniBand enabled EXAScaler storage cluster. With over 30GB/s of performance and petabytes of capacity, Sanger is now ready to tackle the most extreme workflows their Illumina sequencers can throw at them.

 

DDN has long been a partner of choice for organizations that need to scale far beyond conventional file system limits. DDN continues to
reaffirm its position at the vanguard of the scalable systems marketplace, and therefore as one of the storage leaders of the contemporary Big
Data era.  

— Mark Peters, Senior Analyst, Enterprise Strategy Group