Het San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) brak vorige week het wereldrecord 'speed & performance' met behulp van twee Brocade SilkWorm 24000 directors. Een onafhankelijke jury was getuige van de nog nooit vertoonde snelheid van 15 gigabytes per seconde over 120 Fibre Channel-connecties.
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LEADING SUPERCOMPUTER CENTER SETS WORLD RECORD FOR SPEED AND PERFORMANCE USING BROCADE SAN TECHNOLOGY
San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) Chooses SilkWorm 24000 SAN Directors For Demonstration at High-Performance Computing Conference
SAN JOSE, Calif.-November 15, 2004-Brocade Communications Systems, Inc. (Brocade®) (Nasdaq: BRCD), the world's leading provider of infrastructure for Storage Area Networks (SANs), today announced that its most powerful SAN director switches were utilized by the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) for a successful world-record demonstration of networked storage speed and performance at last week's SC2004 (SuperComputing 2004) conference. SDSC used two Brocade SilkWorm 24000 directors to demonstrate record-setting parallel file system transfer rates as part of the StorCloud Challenge, a petabyte-scale, high-performance storage demonstration that took place on the SC2004 exhibit floor from November 8-11.
On Thursday, November 11, StorCloud judges announced that SDSC achieved a 15 gigabytes per second (GB/sec) transfer rate across the 120 Fibre Channel connections between the SDSC booth and the StorCloud SAN infrastructure. SDSC was named the winner in the "Maximum Use of Bandwidth I/O Per Second" category for its world record in generating the fastest data transfer rates in a specified period of time.
"We chose SAN directors from Brocade because of our long-term success in working with the company," said Bryan Banister, Manager of SAN and Server Infrastructure at SDSC. "When we created the TeraGrid three years ago, to link SDSC with other supercomputing centers, we used Brocade directors to provide the performance, scalability, and reliability we needed. So it was natural that we would work with Brocade in our effort to create an ad hoc high-speed storage network to demonstrate best-of-breed technology for handling massive amounts of storage on the show floor."
The StorCloud Challenge is a competition designed to demonstrate interesting comparisons of storage-intensive applications that demand fast transfer rates and/or use multiple file systems. SDSC was one of a variety of government, industry, and academic volunteers at SC2004 that architected and deployed StorCloud, as an onsite "storage-on-request" system to support researchers demonstrating high-bandwidth applications.
At SC2004, SDSC demonstrated a 150-terabyte parallel file system running on 40 IA-64 compute nodes and driving a "fully loaded" IBM TotalStorage SAN solution with 60 IBM FastT 600s. The speed of sorting has long been used as a measure of computer systems I/O and communication performance. SDSC partnered with IBM to sort 120 GB in less than one minute, setting a new record for minute sort [Footnote]. The same application sorted one terabyte in 487 seconds, breaking the old record for the terabyte sort. SDSC also used this application to saturate the available storage network bandwidth during the StorCloud challenge at rates sustaining 15 Gigabytes per second.
The Brocade SilkWorm 24000 is a 128-port director designed to meet the most rigorous high-availability, performance, and scalability requirements. It delivers an extensible architecture that is the foundation for an unprecedented range of system expansion and growth choices for data center investment protection. In addition, it lowers ongoing operational costs by providing the lowest power consumption and most efficient heat dissipation for any director in the industry.
About StorCloud
StorCloud is a special initiative to showcase High-Performance Computing (HPC) storage technologies, presented for the first time at SC2004. Architected and deployed entirely by volunteers from government, industry, and academia, StorCloud comprises state-of-the-art heterogeneous devices and technologies to provide an extreme storage capability to conference exhibitors. The StorCloud Challenge is a competition where teams are given time, space, and bandwidth to demonstrate their data intensive applications. For more information on the StorCloud initiative, contact the committee at storcloud04@nacse.org.
About SDSC
Founded in 1985, the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) has a mission to extend the reach of scientific accomplishments by providing high-end hardware technologies, integrative software technologies, and deep inter-disciplinary expertise to the community. SDSC is an organized research unit of the University of California, San Diego with a staff of more than 400 scientists, software developers, and support personnel primarily funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF). For more information, visit www.sdsc.edu.
About Brocade Communications Systems, Inc.
Brocade Communications Systems, Inc. offers the industry's leading intelligent platform for networking storage. The world's leading systems, applications, and storage vendors have selected Brocade to provide a networking foundation for their SAN solutions. The Brocade SilkWorm family of fabric switches and software is designed to optimize data availability and storage and server resources in the enterprise. Using Brocade solutions, companies can simplify SAN implementation, reduce the total cost of ownership of data storage environments, and improve network and application efficiency. For more information, visit the Brocade Web site at www.brocade.com or contact the company at info@brocade.com.
[Footnoet] Anon., Et-Al. (1985). "A Measure of Transaction Processing Power." Datamation. V.31(7): pp. 112-118. Also in Readings in Database Systems, M.J. Stonebraker ed., Morgan Kaufmann, San Mateo, 1989. Records are published at: research.microsoft.com/barc/SortBenchmark/
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