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In high-performance computing (HPC), designing a well-balanced storage system to achieve optimal performance presents significant challenges. A typical storage system consists of a variety of considerations, including file system choices, file system tuning, disk drive, storage controller, IO cards, network cards, and switch strategies. Configuring these components for best performance, manageability, and future scalability requires a great deal of planning and organization.
The Dell Technologies Validated Design for HPC BeeGFS High-Capacity Storage is a fully supported, easy-to-use, high-throughput, scale-out, parallel file system storage solution with well-described performance characteristics. This solution is offered with deployment services and full hardware and software support from Dell Technologies.
The solution in large configuration with four ME5084 arrays scales to 6.72 PB of raw storage (5.069 PB usable) and uses Dell PowerEdge servers and Dell PowerVault storage arrays.