7900 HPC Storage System
The LSI Engenio 7900 HPC storage system is engineered to provide HPC-class performance with uncompromising uptime to meet the demands of today’s most demanding applications. This unique combination makes it an ideal solution for HPC environments with massive amounts of critical data and computing demands that require enterprise-class availability.
With a demonstrated 6.4 GB/s of sustained bandwidth, and the flexibility of RAID protection levels 0, 1, 3, 5, 6 and 10, the 7900 HPC storage system delivers the performance and availability required to meet the escalating bandwidth and I/O demands of today’s performance-driven applications
Based on the seventh-generation XBB2 architecture, the 7900 HPC storage system is the culmination of 30 years of design knowledge and firmware development. With almost 400,000 systems implemented across the most demanding market segments, LSI has a long-standing history of delivering highly available storage for environments requiring uninterrupted data access. The 7900 HPC storage system, with redundancy throughout and no single point of failure, continues this tradition and delivers industry-leading uptime to ensure uninterrupted data access and bullet-proof data protection.
Additionally, the 7900 HPC storage system is designed to seamlessly adapt to evolving infrastructure, application and capacity requirements. With field-replaceable interfaces that include Fibre Channel (FC) and InfiniBand (IB), the 7900 HPC storage system can quickly and easily adapt to change for optimized price/performance and investment protection.
The next-generation 7900 HPC storage system provides HPC customers with a flexible, high-performance storage system designed to ensure continuous high-speed data accessibility and protection across a wide-range of compute-intensive, high-performance workloads.
Features
- (16) 4 Gb/s Fibre Channel or (8) 20 Gb/s InfiniBand interfaces
- Supports up to 256 Fibre Channel/SATA drives
- 8GB of dedicated data cache with battery backup
- Online storage administration
Performance:
- Sustained throughput from disk: 6,400 MB/s
Benefits
- High-speed, balanced performance supports a wide range of HPC requirements, including mixed workloads
- Field-replaceable Fibre Channel and InfiniBand interfaces adapt to changing infrastructures
- Fully redundant I/O paths, automated failover and online administration create industry-leading uptime to ensure continuous high-speed data access.
- Support for FC and SATA drives ensures data resides on the drive that best fits performance/cost goals
- Proven architecture of nearly 400,000 systems deployed benefits from more than 30 years of design knowledge and firmware development
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