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Dell EMC Isilon F800 represents the 6th generation of hardware built to run the well-proven and massively scalable OneFS operating system. Each F800 chassis contains four storage nodes with 60 high-performance Solid State Drives (SSDs) and eight (8) 40 Gigabit Ethernet network connections. OneFS combines up to 144 nodes in 36 chassis into a single high-performance file system designed to handle the most intense I/O workloads such as deep learning. As performance and capacity demands increase, both can be scaled-out simply and non-disruptively, allowing applications and users to continue working.
Dell EMC Isilon F800 has the following features.
This shortens time for training and testing analytical models on for data sets from 10’s TBs to 10’s of PBs on AI platforms such as TensorFlow, SparkML, Caffe, or proprietary AI platforms.
This eliminates the need to migrate/copy data and results over to a separate AI stack. Organizations can perform Deep Learning and run other IT apps on same data already on Isilon by adding F800 nodes to existing cluster.
This enables organizations to manage AI data lifecycle with minimal cost and risk, while protecting data and meeting regulatory requirements.
Organizations can achieve AI at scale in a cost-effective manner, enabling them to handle multi-petabyte data sets with high resolution content without re-architecture and/or performance degradation.
There are several key features of Isilon OneFS that make it an excellent storage system for deep learning workloads that require performance, concurrency, and scale. These features are detailed below.