HPC Storage Enters a New Era
Until relatively recently, HPC storage systems have been almost an afterthought, a grab bag mix of components jury rigged together to support the star of the show – a supercomputer or a large compute...
View ArticleHigh Performance Storage Solutions for High Performance Computing
With its recent acquisition of Xyratex and EVault, Seagate brings decades of experience as a storage solutions leader to bear on the fast growing field of high performance computing (HPC). The company...
View ArticleWant to Boost HPC Performance? Adding Disks is Not the Answer
These days storage is in the HPC spotlight. How well an HPC application performs relies not only on total system memory bandwidth and sustained floating point operations per second, but also on a...
View ArticleSeagate Stakes its Claim as an HPC Storage Leader Helping to Shape IT’s Future
In recent years, high performance computing has had a major impact on the world and the development of IT systems in general. The nature of weather forecasting has changed to be much more precise. Our...
View ArticleHow to Achieve Collaboration and Security in Today’s World
When sharing mission-critical information across storage data networks, enforcing security policies can be surprisingly complex and fall short of the ideal enforcement scenario. The use of an...
View ArticleHPC Storage Evolution Ramps Up
With Seagate’s announcement that it will be integrating IBM® Spectrum Scale® software with its award winning¹ ClusterStor high performance parallel storage system, the evolution of HPC and enterprise...
View ArticleThe Makings of a True “Market Leader”
Seagate has solidified its position as the #1 choice of high performance storage solutions for new supercomputers. Quite an accomplishment in only four years. With the release of the latest Top500®...
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Seagate Sets Sights on Broader HPC Market
In a relatively short time, storage giant Seagate Technology has amped up its push into HPC. Today, four of the top ten supercomputer sites in the world run on Seagate, including all of the newcomers...
View ArticleSeagate, USCAS Urge Congress to Fully Fund FY17 Supercomputing Budget
Given divided government and the election year, the U.S. FY17 budget discussions are likely to be more contentious than usual. Seagate tweeted yesterday that it and fellow industry members of the U.S....
View ArticleTACC Director Lays Out Details of 2nd-Gen Stampede System
With a $30 million award from the National Science Foundation announced today, the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) at The University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin) will stand up a...
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HPC Financial Update (Feb. 2017)
In this recurring feature, we’ll provide you with financial highlights from companies in the HPC industry. Check back in regularly for an updated list with the most pertinent fiscal information. Cray...
View ArticleCray Moves to Acquire the Seagate ClusterStor Line
This week Cray announced that it is picking up Seagate’s ClusterStor HPC array business for an undisclosed sum as part of a “strategic deal and partnership.” “In short we’re effectively transitioning...
View ArticleCray Completes ClusterStor Deal, Sunsets Sonexion Brand
Having today completed the transaction and strategic partnership with Seagate announced back in July, Cray is now home to the ClusterStor line and will be sunsetting the Sonexion brand. This is not...
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CATALOG, Seagate Team to Improve DNA Storage, DNA Computation
CATALOG, which was founded in 2016 by MIT researchers, pitches itself as “building the world’s first DNA-based platform for massive digital data storage and computation.” Now, CATALOG has announced a...
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