Intransa Deployed as IP Storage Backbone at Supercomputing Conference Demonstration; Achieves Industry I/O Performance Records
With IBM and Lawrence Livermore National Labs, Intransa's Modular IP SAN Wins Key Challenges at ASC StorCloud Demonstration
SAN JOSE, Calif. — Nov. 23, 2004
Intransa, the global leader in enterprise IP SAN storage systems, announced today that its modular IP Storage Area Network (SAN) was utilized as the IP backbone by the San Diego Supercomputing Center (SDSC) as part of an industry I/O performance record. SDSC used Intransa's IP SAN in a first-ever demonstration at Supercomputing 2004, showcasing multiple servers accessing the same data in parallel - via a clustered file system - spread out across a traditional Fibre Channel SAN and an IP-based SAN in the same infrastructure as part of an ASC StorCloud Challenge.
SDSC judges announced two winners as part of the ASC StorCloud Challenge in demonstrations including the Massive Parallel Quantum Chemistry (MPQC) – “Most Innovative Use of Parallel I/O to Better Science” – and Blockbuster, chosen for “Best Randam I/O Performance”. The Blockbuster demonstration, engineered by volunteers from Sandia and Lawrence Livermore National Labs, the nation's premier defense research facility, and enabled by IBM's Global Parallel File System on Linux. Blockbuster is a scalable animation display designed to render a large scientific data-set on large computer displays. It shows the benefits of high-performance computing in a clustered server environment using high-speed Gigabit-Ethernet and 10-Gigabit-Ethernet interconnects and both a traditional Fibre Channel SAN and a modular IP-based SAN from Intransa to provide concurrent user access to the storage infrastructure.
“We are pleased to be a part of the winning Blockbuster demonstration in achieving a world record in I/O performance for the industry,” said Ravi Pendekanti, vice president of global marketing, Intransa. “The StorCloud challenge validates the performance and scalability for Intransa's modular IP storage systems and how well our offerings perform side-by-side with traditional Fibre Channel SANs.”
Intransa's Approach to IP Storage Area Networking
Intransa leads the pack of IP SAN providers by delivering the industry's most comprehensive suite of IP SAN solutions to meet the needs of small, mid-tier, and enterprise-class customers alike. The Intransa IP storage offering is based on the company's IntraStorT three-tiered modular architecture that enable companies to quickly adapt and grow storage resources without requiring major forklift upgrades. This leading approach allows customers to independently scale and provision storage resources without impacting the management or performance of their network storage system. In addition to the IntraStorTM architecture, the Intransa StorControlTM system software provides a complete suite of enterprise-class storage management and data protection features that allow IT administrators to seamlessly grow and manage their storage environment based on business requirements.
About StorCloud
StorCloud is a special initiative to showcase High-Performance Computing (HPC) storage technologies, presented for the first time at SC2004. Architected and deployed entirely by volunteers from government, industry, and academia, StorCloud comprises state-of-the-art heterogeneous devices and technologies to provide an extreme storage capability to conference exhibitors. The StorCloud Challenge is a competition where teams are given time, space, and bandwidth to demonstrate their data intensive applications. For more information on the StorCloud initiative, contact the committee at storcloud04@nacse.org.
About SDSC
Founded in 1985, the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) has a mission to extend the reach of scientific accomplishments by providing high-end hardware technologies, integrative software technologies, and deep inter-disciplinary expertise to the community. SDSC is an organized research unit of the University of California, San Diego with a staff of more than 400 scientists, software developers, and support personnel primarily funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF). For more information, visit www.sdsc.edu.
About Intransa
Intransa, Inc. is the leading innovator of shared, scalable and simple external IP storage solutions for video and IT storage. A single DVR can benefit from Intransa storage, increasing reliability and retention while reducing video surveillance cost.
Based in San Jose, CA, Intransa offers scalable, high performance security-grade storage with outstanding availability and price/performance, with built in Set-and-Forget Management for proven ease of use. The company's Video Storage Administrator toolkit is the first in the industry to configure external storage for use in video surveillance and other physical security applications without requiring extensive IT storage knowledge for maximum benefit. Instead, the VSA is configured and administered using familiar frame rate, resolution, retention period and other physical security terms.
Beginning as a 3Com spin-off, Intransa has been shipping shared IP network storage solutions since 2003. Intransa IP storage is available worldwide through authorized StorPartner security and systems integrators. Intransa is an Axis Communications Applications Development Partner, Cisco Ecosystem Provider, Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, and VMware Technology Alliance Partner along with many other industry partnerships through our StorAlliance Technology Partner program.
Intransa believes and supports industry standards, and is a member of the Security Industry Association, the Storage Networking Industry Association and its green storage initiative, and The Green Grid organization for green IT. Intransa employees are also members and supporters of ASIS International and the ASIS Physical Security Council.
For more information about Intransa and our industry-leading sharable, scalable and simple external IP storage solutions, to locate a StorPartner security and systems integrator, or to join the StorAlliance Technology Partner program, please visit us at www.intransa.com.
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