High-Performance Computing (HPC) and scalable Artificial Intelligence (AI) workloads typically use parallel file systems to make sure that all the computing nodes in a cluster can directly access the data they need without being bottlenecked by control nodes. Organizations running these workloads are looking to more easily include external data sources as well as, of course, improve performance. Making the correct infrastructure choice is often a major contributor to the success or failure of projects leveraging large scale data.
In our latest LightBoard video, George Crump, Lead Analyst at Storage Switzerland and Sven Oehme, Chief Research Officer at DDN, discuss how DDNs EXAScaler clustered storage solution, powered by its new EXA5 Filesystem, meets these demands. Watch the video to learn more about EXA and how, in its latest release, EXA5 provides support for NFS, SMB, and S3 clients to support edge and IoT devices. In the video, we also discuss GPUDirect to Storage, a collaboration between NVIDIA and DDN which enables a direct path between storage and GPU memory.
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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