HPE Cray Supercomputing Storage Systems C500 Management Unit Controller

Does your HPC/AI cluster need better storage performance for converged workloads of mixed and random I/O requirements for ML/AI applications while preserving the cost-effectiveness and scalability of traditional parallel HPC storage? The HPE Cray Storage Systems C500 utilizes an open-source, parallel file system architecture for impressive performance and is ideal for entry and mid-range HPC/AI clusters with limited storage budgets that want to improve the utilization of their CPU/GPU investments. This unique, hybrid architecture exploits the strengths of different storage media (NVMe, SSD/SAS, HDD) while avoiding their respective weaknesses, allowing superb performance speeds with fewer rack units. Utilize the HPE Cray Storage Systems C500 to experience the same price/performance benefits for storage as the largest supercomputing leadership sites.. What is new supporting point:. Hybrid now scales up to four 5U84 HDD enclosures and all flash scales out to four SSU-F enclosures. Support growing business demand for better performance, capacity, and availability with a cost-effective management system built on HPE ProLiant DL325.. With just three rack units, achieve impressive out-of-the-box performance with up to 80 GB/sec read and 60 GB/sec write throughput.. Customize configurations as small as 12 NVMe SSDs with the ability to partially populate system enclosures.. Simplify integration into your organization's global data platform with NFS gateway functionality.. Host both metadata and storage on a 2U24 NVMe SSD storage controller for better data consistency.Quickspecs