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DataDirect Storage Solutions Offered in Cray Supercomputers

DataDirect Networks (DDN), Inc., says it has extended its alliance with Cray Inc., the supercomputer company, to feature the next-generation Storage Fusion Architecture. In this Market Watch press release, the company said that the SFA10000 is the first of the next-generation DDN intelligent storage systems to be used in all of Cray's high-end supercomputers, including the new Cray XE6 supercomputer.

"The DDN SFA 10000, designed from the ground up to address the evolving data storage requirements of multi-core, scalable computation, delivers industry-leading capability of up to 12 GB/sec of read and write performance and over 1 million IOPS to handle any workload. With 60GB/s of fully-balanced, non-blocking internal bandwidth and the ability to manage up to 1,200 storage devices (HDD/SSD), the SFA10000 is three times more scalable than competing systems and optimized for online and nearline storage environments. HPC-optimized features include native parallel file system and application hosting, an active/active redundant design, high-speed mirrored cache, intelligent performance optimization, SATAssure data protection, fully-RAIDed drive enclosures and 8GB Fibre Channel and 40GB InfiniBand host-port options."