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Update: WekaIO Places First on The Virtual Institute's IO-500 10 Node Challenge
WekaIO,
the innovation leader in high-performance, scalable file storage for
data-intensive applications, today announced the following changes to
the way the IO-500 benchmark was scored. The Virtual Institute for I/O
(VI4IO) has placed WekaIO Matrix™ in first place on the IO-500 10 Node
Challenge list, beating out massive supercomputer installations. VI4IO
republished the 10
Node Challenge list with the new rankings indicating Matrix™ as
number one-31 percent faster than IBM Spectrum (News - Alert) Scale and 85 percent
faster than DataDirect Networks (DDN®) Lustre.
The IO-500 10 Node Challenge is a ranked list comparing storage systems
that work in tandem with the world's largest supercomputers. By limiting
the benchmark to 10 nodes, the test challenges single client performance
from the storage system. Each system is evaluated using the IO-500
benchmark that measures the storage perfrmance using read/write
bandwidth for large files and read/write/listing performance for small
files. Storage performance in supercomputers is critical for large-scale
simulation, big data analysis, and artificial intelligence (AI). The
IO-500 list serves as a resource for companies looking to improve their
storage performance, which in turn helps to improve both processor
efficiency and application performance. WekaIO ran the IO-500 test on
eight Supermicro BigTwin™ enclosures, representing less than half of a
storage server rack, and scored better than the world's fastest
supercomputer which ran its system on a 40-rack Spectrum Scale storage
cluster.
The WekaIO Matrix software is an NVMe-native, highly resilient parallel
file system that runs on commodity servers, delivering the highest
bandwidth, lowest latency performance to any InfiniBand or Ethernet
enabled GPU- or CPU-based cluster. The POSIX-compliant file system
leverages an innovative, highly optimized software stack that leverages
modern architectures such as low-latency NVMe-oF and massively
distributed metadata. Built for enterprise grade high-performance
computing (HPC), it tightly integrates object storage for best economics
at scale and supports features such as snapshots, cloud backup and
legacy protocols such as NFS and SMB.
To see the official rankings of all companies on the 10 Node Challenge
list, go to: https://www.vi4io.org/io500/list/19-01/10node
About WekaIO
WekaIO helps companies manage, scale and futureproof their data center
so they can solve real problems that impact the world. WekaIO Matrix™,
the world's fastest shared parallel file system and WekaIO's flagship
product, leapfrogs legacy storage infrastructures by delivering
simplicity, scale, and the best performance density per U, for a
fraction of the cost. In the cloud or on-premises, WekaIO's NVMe-native
high-performance software-defined storage solution removes the barriers
between the data and the compute layer, thus accelerating artificial
intelligence, machine learning, genomics, research, and analytics
workloads.

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