Intransa Deployed As IP Storage Backbone at Supercomputing Conference Demonstration; Achieves Industry I/O Performance Records
Posted on: Tuesday, 23 November 2004, 12:00 CST
SAN JOSE, Calif., Nov. 23 /PRNewswire/ -- Intransa, the global leader in enterprise IP SAN storage systems, announced today that its modular IP Storage Area Network (SAN) was utilized as the IP backbone by the San Diego Supercomputing Center (SDSC) as part of an industry I/O performance record. SDSC used Intransa's IP SAN in a first-ever demonstration at Supercomputing 2004, showcasing multiple servers accessing the same data in parallel -- via a clustered file system -- spread out across a traditional Fibre Channel SAN and an IP-based SAN in the same infrastructure as part of an ASC StorCloud Challenge.
SDSC judges announced two winners as part of the ASC StorCloud Challenge in demonstrations including the Massive Parallel Quantum Chemistry (MPQC) -- "Most Innovative Use of Parallel I/O to Better Science" -- and Blockbuster, chosen for "Best Randam I/O Performance." The Blockbuster demonstration, engineered by volunteers from Sandia and Lawrence Livermore National Labs, the nation's premier defense research facility, and enabled by IBM's Global Parallel File System on Linux. Blockbuster is a scalable animation display designed to render a large scientific data-set on large computer displays. It shows the benefits of high-performance computing in a clustered server environment using high-speed Gigabit-Ethernet and 10-Gigabit-Ethernet interconnects and both a traditional Fibre Channel SAN and a modular IP-based SAN from Intransa to provide concurrent user access to the storage infrastructure.
"We are pleased to be a part of the winning Blockbuster demonstration in achieving a world record in I/O performance for the industry," said Ravi Pendekanti, vice president of global marketing, Intransa. "The StorCloud challenge validates the performance and scalability for Intransa's modular IP storage systems and how well our offerings perform side-by-side with traditional Fibre Channel SANs."
Intransa's Approach to IP Storage Area Networking
Intransa leads the pack of IP SAN providers by delivering the industry's most comprehensive suite of IP SAN solutions to meet the needs of small, mid-tier, and enterprise-class customers alike. The Intransa IP storage offering is based on the company's IntraStor(TM) three-tiered modular architecture that enable companies to quickly adapt and grow storage resources without requiring major forklift upgrades. This leading approach allows customers to independently scale and provision storage resources without impacting the management or performance of their network storage system. In addition to the IntraStor(TM) architecture, the Intransa StorControl(TM) system software provides a complete suite of enterprise-class storage management and data protection features that allow IT administrators to seamlessly grow and manage their storage environment based on business requirements.
About StorCloud
StorCloud is a special initiative to showcase High-Performance Computing (HPC) storage technologies, presented for the first time at SC2004. Architected and deployed entirely by volunteers from government, industry, and academia, StorCloud comprises state-of-the-art heterogeneous devices and technologies to provide an extreme storage capability to conference exhibitors. The StorCloud Challenge is a competition where teams are given time, space, and bandwidth to demonstrate their data intensive applications. For more information on the StorCloud initiative, contact the committee at storcloud04@nacse.org.
About SDSC
Founded in 1985, the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) has a mission to extend the reach of scientific accomplishments by providing high-end hardware technologies, integrative software technologies, and deep inter-disciplinary expertise to the community. SDSC is an organized research unit of the University of California, San Diego with a staff of more than 400 scientists, software developers, and support personnel primarily funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF). For more information, visit http://www.sdsc.edu/.
About Intransa
Headquartered in San Jose, California, Intransa is an innovator of enterprise-class, intelligent IP storage solutions that radically reduce the complexity of deploying scalable network storage. Based on advanced technology that leverages the cost and performance advantage of Ethernet and the ubiquity of IP networks, Intransa's products are enabling a new generation of information storage, delivery, and management over IP networks. Founded in September 2000, Intransa has secured $74 million in funding from Advanced Technology Ventures, Menlo Ventures, Sofinnova Ventures, Sofinnova Partners, US Venture Partners, and a major pension fund. For more information, visit http://www.intransa.com/.
NOTE: Intransa, the Intransa logo, IntraStor and StorControl are trademarks of Intransa Inc. All other brand and product names may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders.
CONTACT:
Sabrina Sanchez
Trainer Communications, for Intransa
+1-925-875-1968
sabrina@trainercomm.com
Intransa Inc.
CONTACT: Sabrina Sanchez of Trainer Communications, +1-925-875-1968, orsabrina@trainercomm.com, for Intransa
Web site: http://www.sdsc.edu/
Web site: http://www.intransa.com/
Source: PRNewswire
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