SC Exhibits - Exhibitor Details

• Panasas Inc.
• Website: www.panasas.com
• Booth 235
• Industry Exhibitor
• SC Exhibitor for 7 years

• Disruptive Technologies * (Hardware)
  Storage (Hardware, Services, Software, Solutions)
  Supercomputing (Hardware, Services, Software, Solutions)

Panasas, Inc., the leading provider of high-performance storage for the world’s most performance-intensive applications, helping customers accelerate their time to results leading to real world breakthroughs. Panasas’ high-performance storage systems enable customers to maximize the benefits of compute clusters by eliminating the storage bottleneck created with legacy network storage technologies. Panasas offers the most comprehensive portfolio of storage solutions for HPC environments.

Presenting at SCExhibitor Forum

• Tuesday    11:00-11:30    Room C123
• Garth Gibson (Panasas), Brent Welch (Panasas)
• Panasas: pNFS, Solid State Disks and RoadRunner


• The most significant component of NFS v4.1 is the inclusion of Parallel NFS (pNFS) which represents the first major performance upgrade to NFS in over a decade. pNFS represents the standardization of parallel IO and allows clients to access storage directly and in parallel, eliminating the scalability and performance issues associated with typical NFS servers today. Solid State Disks (SSD) offer the potential to radically change the performance characteristics of Storage systems and accelerate application performance. However there are important trade-offs in reliability, management overhead and cost when implementing SSD technology. Panasas will detail the application benefits while improving reliability, eliminating management issues in the latest Series 9 ActiveStor systems. The RoadRunner SuperComputer at LANL was the first to achieve a sustained PetaFLOP and continues to be the fastest system in production. Panasas will detail the ActiveStor system that provides the storage infrastructure for this system.

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