Panasas has unveiled two new families of storage
clusters, the Panasas ActiveStor 5000 and Panasas ActiveStor
3000.
Both ActiveStor 5000 and ActiveStor 3000 include the new
ActiveScale 3.0 operating environment and Panasas PanFSParallel
File System. ActiveStor 5000 is targeted at HPC end users looking
for a unified
storage fabric and with a mix of batch applications on clustered
Linux servers and interactive applications on workstations. The
ActiveStor 5000 is offered in 5Tb or 10 Tb configurations scaling
to 100Tb on a single fully configured, pre-wired and tested Panasas
rack system.
Panasas claims that by unifying storage for both types of HPC
applications, users can speed up workflow in product development
and research, substantially lower operating costs by minimising
duplication of data; and simplify storage management.
”We have proven our ability to meet the requirements of the most
demanding Linux cluster users in the federal government, academia
and commercial enterprise segments,” stated Victor Perez, president
and CEO of Panasas. “These new products will bring the unsurpassed
performance and manageability of Panasas ActiveScale storage
solutions to a much broader set of customers - those that require a
unified storage infrastructure for all of their HPC
applications.”
ActiveStor 5000 and ActiveStor 3000 will be released to new and
existing customers in January 2007 and will be showcased at the
SC06 Supercomputer Exhibition and Conference.