Businesses of all types are increasingly finding themselves in midst of a high performance computing (HPC) environment. This commercial HPC environment though is different from traditional HPC environments found in academia. The demand for business to manage their own HPC environment became apparent over the past few years as organizations learned the value of mining their data to help make better decisions, develop better products and to even monetize their data assets.
It’s not uncommon for these commercial HPC customers to first attempt to use traditional business class storage systems designed for databases and virtual machines. They quickly find however that the sequential access of mass quantities of large and small files is beyond the capabilities of these systems. The commercial HPC customer then turns to traditional HPC architectures common in academia. The problem with traditional HPC architectures is they require a lot of time and assembly to implement and maintain.
Instead, Commercial HPC needs something different, a turnkey system that handles the unique Commercial HPC IO patterns while using storage resources optimally so costs stay in check.
In our latest eBook, Storage Switzerland provides a checklist of what organizations should look for in an HPC storage system designed for the commercial market. The eBook is available exclusively as an attachment to our on demand webinar “Is Your Storage Ready for Commercial HPC? – Three Steps to Take”. Register to watch the webinar and gain immediate access to the eBook.
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George Crump is the Chief Marketing Officer at VergeIO, the leader in Ultraconverged Infrastructure. Prior to VergeIO he was Chief Product Strategist at StorONE. Before assuming roles with innovative technology vendors, George spent almost 14 years as the founder and lead analyst at Storage Switzerland. In his spare time, he continues to write blogs on Storage Switzerland to educate IT professionals on all aspects of data center storage. He is the primary contributor to Storage Switzerland and is a heavily sought-after public speaker. With over 30 years of experience designing storage solutions for data centers across the US, he has seen the birth of such technologies as RAID, NAS, SAN, Virtualization, Cloud, and Enterprise Flash. Before founding Storage Switzerland, he was CTO at one of the nation's largest storage integrators, where he was in charge of technology testing, integration, and product selection.
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