LSI Announces Successful Deployment of High Performance Storage System Based on Next-Generation XBB-2 Architecture
Demonstration at SC07 to Showcase Benefits for High-Performance Computing Environments
SC07 – Reno, NV., November 13, 2007 – LSI Corporation (NYSE:LSI) today announced the first customer deployment of a storage system based on its new, seventh-generation XBB-2 architecture. On September 17, 2007 a beta system consisting of more than one petabyte of storage was installed at the National Center for Computational Sciences (NCCS) at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). Acceptance criteria were met within three days of delivery and testing will continue into 2008 during the next phase of the Department of Energy’s (DOE) petascale initiative at ORNL.
Based on its demonstrated bandwidth of 6.4 GB/sec from disk and data integrity capabilities, the XBB-2 storage system was down-selected for evaluation by the NCCS at Oak Ridge National Laboratory to provide the storage support for the world’s first petascale class supercomputer. NCCS at Oak Ridge National Laboratory has been designated by the Secretary of Energy as the Leadership Computing Facility for the nation, to provide for unclassified research a resource 100 times more powerful than current capabilities.
“As Oak Ridge prepares to deploy a petaflop computer system in 2009, it is critical that we provide a storage system that is up to the task. We were particularly interested in evaluating the latest generation of storage technology from LSI because it had the performance and reliability characteristics that are required for this scale,” said Shane Canon, Technology Group Leader at the NCCS.
The performance capabilities of the XBB-2 storage system make it ideal for the mixed high-performance computing (HPC) workloads of applications such as digital content, sciences, defense/intelligence and energy. The flexible host interface design of the system provides HPC customers investment protection for future technologies including 8Gb FC, 10Gb iSCSI, QDR and InfiniBand. Support for multiple drive technologies ensures data can be stored on drive types that meet cost/performance goals. The XBB-2 system supports RAID 6,5,3,10,1,0 with LUN sizes of up to 448 drives (RAID10/1).
“Storage is a key component in the HPC computing space, and one that continues to grow in both size and importance,” said David Ellis, Director of HPC Architecture, LSI. “With 25 plus years of experience and over 300,000 storage systems shipped, LSI is well positioned to serve the needs of customers in this market such as the DOE and Oak Ridge National Lab. Not only do we offer superior performance and reliability with products such as our new XBB-2, but also the sales and engineering competencies to serve the early adopters of technology with pre-production hardware.”
A demonstration of the XBB-2 storage system will be available in Booth 106 at the SC07 international conference on high performance computing, networking, storage and analysis, November 10-16 at the Reno-Sparks Convention Center in Reno, NV.
For more information on SC07, please visit http://sc07.supercomputing.org/.
About LSI Corporation
LSI Corporation (NYSE: LSI) is a leading provider of innovative silicon, systems and software technologies that enable products, which seamlessly bring people, information and digital content together. The company offers a broad portfolio of capabilities and services including custom and standard product ICs, adapters, systems and software that are trusted by the world's best known brands to power leading solutions in the Storage and Networking markets. More information is available at www.lsi.com.
About Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Located in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, ORNL is the U.S. Department of Energy's largest science and energy laboratory, with over 4,000 researchers and support staff. ORNL is an international leader in research areas that include neutron science, new energy sources, high-performance computing, biological systems, nanoscale materials science and national security. ORNL is home to the Center for Functional Genomics, the Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences and a number of other research facilities. The laboratory was selected as the site of the Office of Science's National Leadership Computing Facility, whose goal is to build the world's fastest supercomputer for unclassified research. Go to www.ornl.gov for more information.
