DataDirect Networks ‘dominates’ in TOP500

As the premier global list that ranks supercomputers by performance, the TOP500 list is a testament to the computer power of massively scalable computer systems that are being used across high performance computing (HPC) markets.

According to the recent DDN end user survey, storage I/O is the most critical issue for organizations at today’s petascale levels. This is not surprising given CPU performance rises faster than disk. For example, the performance of systems in the Top10 has increased by 14x in less than 5 years and currently nine are powered by DDNTM technology.

As the number of TOP500 systems with performance greater than a petaflop has increased year on year, DDN has continued to set the performance standard by out-innovating and delivering the highest levels of platform scalability and performance efficiency at the lowest total cost of ownership.

New DDN deployments including, Los Alamos National Laboratories (LANL), RRZN, and HLRN join existing DDN customers and TOP500 organizations Oakridge National Laboratory (ORNL), National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) and Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) which recognize that site-wide file systems are the next infrastructure trend in HPC environments.