The Panasas ActiveStor family of scale-out NAS solutions enable enterprise customers to rapidly solve complex computing problems, speed innovation and bring new products to market faster. The Panasas ActiveStor HC is a multi-petabyte scale-out NAS solution designed for managing massive amounts of data and delivering the highest levels of performance, scalability and manageability. The Panasas ActiveStor HC is an ideal solution for
organizations requiring scalability, cost efficiency, and performance to capture and store huge amounts of data for technical applications. Panasas ActiveStor HC’s efficient design provides nearly one PB of raw capacity in a single floor tile-sized footprint, and capacity can be added without disruption to create vast, multi petabyte storage pools.
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Panasas ActiveStor Parallel Storage
1. PAS HC
High Capacity Scale-Out NAS
The Panasas family of scale-out NAS solutions enable enterprise customers
to rapidly solve complex computing problems, speed innovation and bring new
KEY FEATURES
products to market faster. The PAS HC is a multi-petabyte scale-out NAS solution
• Outstanding Performance:
designed for managing massive amounts of data and delivering the highest levels
throughput performance ranging
from 2 GB/sec to over 160 GB/ of performance, scalability and manageability. The PAS HC is an ideal solution for
sec. organizations requiring scalability, cost efficiency, and performance to capture and
• Massive Scalability: high store huge amounts of data for technical applications. PAS HC’s efficient design
density, small footprint with almost provides nearly one PB of raw capacity in a single floor tile-sized footprint, and
1 PB of storage per rack. Modular capacity can be added without disruption to create vast, multi-petabyte storage
architecture ensures capacity can
be added without disruption. pools.
• Superior Manageability:
fast setup and configuration.
Utilizing the patented PanFS™ storage operating system, PAS HC complements the
Dramatically reduces entire PAS family of scale-out NAS solutions to create a single pool of storage under
administration overhead, and a global namespace. This provides customers with the flexibility to support multiple
lowers TCO.
applications and workflows in a single storage system, blazing performance for
complex technical applications and massive capacity to store the results for future
USE CASES analysis. Eliminating multiple islands of storage dramatically reduces system cost
and complexity.
• Research: High density data
repository to manage massive
amounts of data for research labs Leaders worldwide rely on Panasas storage systems to:
associated with the Department
of Energy to manage the nation’s • Improve time-to-market • Protect critical data
nuclear weapons stockpile and
simulating their effectiveness. In • Extend research, science, and knowledge • Minimize risk for better returns
this particular use case, PAS HC • Deliver unprecedented ROI • Improve predictability
delivers over 10 petabytes of user • Solve critical and complex problems at lower cost
available storage and 160 GB/s
of sustained parallel file system
bandwidth.
• Energy: Seismic Processing, Performance
Migration and Interpretation, The PAS HC features the latest generation Intel® Nehalem microarchitecture
Reservoir Simulation technology, delivering industry leading bandwidth and processing capability. The
• Bio/Pharmaceutical: recently updated 64 bit PanFS operating environment provides enhanced throughput
BioInformatics, Computational and processing speed of internal PAS HC operations. These and other improvements
Chemistry, Molecular Modeling
including faster memory, multi-core tuning, and 64 Gb/s Fibre Channel backend
• Industrial Manufacturing: EDA capacity result in ground-breaking throughput performance ranging anywhere from 2
Simulation, Optical Correction,
Thermal Mechanics
GB/s to over 160 GB/s.
Scalability
The PAS HC provides ultra-high scalability through one of the highest density,
space-saving packages available, providing almost one Petabyte of storage per rack.
The PanFS operating system provides a global namespace and a single pool of
storage that scales throughput and capacity symmetrically. The PAS HC also
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