WEKA has made a splash

WEKA, a leader in modern data platform based on its parallel file system, shared some key news during the last IT Press Tour, 2 weeks before their official announcement during the recent Nvidia GTC conference in California. The company who is already a key partner of Nvidia, the GPU champion also invested in WEKA during the Round C in 2019, is validated with GPUDirect for quite a long time.

This time, it's an official certification with WEKA hardware as the firm unveiled its WEKApod, a hardware system ready for Nvidia DGX SuperPOD systems. A minimum of 8 nodes is needed to deliver and sustain impressive I/O performance but 32 nodes are recommended. With a base cluster of 8 nodes with 1PB of usable capacity, 765GB/s and 18.3M IOPS are delivered based on 1 node specification with 95GB/s in read, 23GB/s in write and 2.3M IOPS.