CHATSWORTH, Calif., Dec. 16, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — DDN®, premier supplier of Synthetic Intelligence (AI) and Knowledge Administration software program and {hardware} options enabling Clever Infrastructure, in the present day introduced that its AI targeted storage resolution, EXAScaler®, has been adopted because the devoted storage of the supercomputer system “AI Bridging Inexperienced Cloud Infrastructure,” which is at the moment being developed between Japan’s Nationwide Institute of Superior Industrial Science and Expertise (AIST) and FUJITSU Ltd. (hereinafter, Fujitsu).
AIST’s Inexperienced Cloud Infrastructure expands the present AI Bridging Cloud Infrastructure (ABCI), which was offered by Fujitsu and has been in operation since August 1, 2018, and is scheduled to start out operations in early 2021. Greater than 1,000 customers, from AI start-ups to electronics producers, have been conducting analysis and improvement utilizing the present system. Confronted with fast progress in demand for AI analysis and improvement lately in business, authorities and academia, AIST has determined so as to add the “AI Bridging Inexperienced Cloud Infrastructure” in collaboration with ABCI. The idea is to function each techniques in an built-in method.
The brand new storage atmosphere, which might be used on each techniques, consists of an 11.2 petabyte high-capacity storage system based mostly on DDN’s EXAScaler parallel file system resolution. EXAScaler is predicated on open-source Lustre, which has been adopted by many supercomputer techniques and large-scale AI computing infrastructure tasks, each domestically and internationally.
The primary storage vendor to broadly undertake the open-source Lustre file system, DDN acquired the Lustre improvement division from Intel in 2018 and has since targeted on optimizing Lustre for contemporary purposes in information analytics and AI. Along with sustaining the Lustre supply code tree, DDN is now additionally the principle contributor to the Lustre supply code.
The DDN storage system chosen for the ‘AI Bridging Inexperienced Cloud Infrastructure’ contains three DDN 400NVX items with 405.5 terabytes of efficient information capability, and makes use of state-of-the-art NVMe SSDs, in addition to DDN ES7990X™ items with large-capacity arduous disks for a complete 10.8 petabytes of usable information capability. The high-speed information pool will ship an efficient write throughput of 105GB/s, with learn throughput of over 120GB/s, and over 4 million random learn file IOPs, whereas the capability space is anticipated to ship an efficient throughput of not less than 60GB/s.
“DDN’s EXAScaler is a confirmed resolution that has been delivering high-performance file techniques for giant HPC environments for a while now. Over the previous few years, DDN has invested closely in improvement associated to the Lustre file system, working carefully with GPU distributors corresponding to NVIDIA to optimize Lustre for a wide range of information analytics, machine studying and AI workloads,” stated Shuichi Ihara, principal engineer working primarily on efficiency enhancements at Whamcloud, which is chargeable for growing DDN’s Lustre-based EXAScaler file system resolution. “We’re honored to be chosen by AIST as the principle storage supplier for Japan’s nationwide AI infrastructure, constructed by AIST in collaboration with business, academia and authorities. We’re excited to have the ability to contribute to the event of AI analysis and improvement in Japan along with AIST and Fujitsu.”
About DDN
DDN is a premier supplier of Synthetic Intelligence and Knowledge Administration software program and {hardware} options enabling Clever Infrastructure, delivering unified analytics to unravel enterprise challenges for data-intensive, world organizations. Tintri is a completely owned subsidiary of DDN, comprised of IntelliFlash, Nexenta and Tintri applied sciences and offers enterprise clients with a unique expertise, via simplicity, effectivity and agility for on-premise and multicloud environments, powered by Clever Infrastructure improvements that advance real-time and predictive utility analytics. Over the past twenty years, DDN has established itself as the information administration supplier of selection for over 10,000 enterprise, authorities, and public-sector clients, lots of which embrace the world’s main monetary providers companies, life science organizations, manufacturing and power firms, analysis amenities, and net and cloud service suppliers.
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