Second meeting with Panasas for The IT Press Tour following last year session with the new director announcement, this year the company detailed with us the recent product unveiled at SC18 a few weeks ago in Dallas.The company has made a clear step towards commodity hardware with portable software to reduce cost, facilitate integration and finally boost performance as well.
The new product named ActiveStor Ultra is a new hardware chassis for data storage globally fueled by PanFS8, the last iteration of the parallel file system ported to Linux. Ultra is a 4U chassis with 4 nodes, each node coupled with HDD, SATA and NVMe SSD respectively for large, small files and metadata which is very small data.
The Panasas persistent data layer exposes data via NFS, SMB and DirectFlow, a client side software representing today 95% of the installed base. The parallel effect is only available with DirectFlow as NAS protocols use a single file server instance represented in that case by the director.
ActiveStor Ultra delivers a new level of performance with 75GB/s per rack or 7.5GB/s per 4U chassis with new network capabilities with full InfiniBand and OmniPath. Also the upgrade is fully transparent and PanFS8 with Ultra can coexist with previous generation ActiveStor Prime.
Panasas continues to list Lustre and GPFS/Spectrum Scale but also BeeGFS who rapidly grew since IBM changed the licensing of Spectrum Scale and DDN acquisition of the Whamcloud entity from Intel.
Panasas makes a new iteration towards disaggregated infrastructure with fine granularity. Performance, flexibility and simplicity reach a new level. 2019 in HPC will be interesting with new coming players and new partnerships.
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