Storage for HPC

A comprehensive portfolio of dedicated storage products that enable the full power of HPC by supporting clustered computing and distributed parallel computing.

HPC requires high performance storage

High performance computing (HPC) compute differs dramatically from enterprise compute. Enterprise involves small file sizes and the movement of a few files. HPC has large data sets run in parallel across multiple servers within a cluster and distributed across multiple storage servers, with all data accessible to all servers. HPC requires a parallel distributed file system to provide the necessary high speed concurrent access to the data. Without it, expensive CPUs starve for data and processing is delayed

Storage for High Performance Computing can handle HPC demands

Enterprise storage can't handle HPC

Imagine an 800 horsepower engine running on bicycle tires. The tires couldn’t handle the power and it would be wasted. HPC is like that engine. Enterprise storage can’t handle its power. To achieve the full value of HPC, you need storage designed for HPC.

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HPE storage for HPC delivers

We offer a comprehensive set of easily deployed turnkey HPC storage solutions that can optimize your resources and scale with you.

Simple deployment

Leverage turnkey deployment with factory integration and configuration to get up and running quickly and easily.

Low TCO

Automatically move data to the lowest cost storage based on administrator-defined policies. Data demanding fast response can use SSDs, while slower response data can be placed on hard drives.

Streamlined workflows

Do less repetitive, time consuming work and speed processing by leveraging automatic staging of data as needed for an application.

Key differences between HPC and enterprise storage

	Enterprise storage	HPC storage
Typical workload	Transactional	Job (Data Set)
Performance requirement	I/O	Bandwidth
Typical file size	Small	Large
Typical file access	Random	Sequential
Data movement	Minimal	Extensive

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Featured HPC storage products

HPE Apollo 4520
A scalable, turnkey solution for Lustre clustered storage environments with a dual-node system and up to 46 drives. Capacity can be increased by adding additional drives in a disk enclosure.
HPE Data Management Framework
Data accessibility and storage resource optimization software that features time proven data movement and hierarchical storage management functionality.