Exascale Systems Need Maximum Efficiency
DDN News, Thursday, July 27,2023
DDN on the other hand has been shipping the largest All Flash Systems for the largest AI Supercomputers in the world this month. We show 30X performance per rack unit compared to these NFS based systems.
We've recently seen a storage vendor trumpeting a modest installation and proudly comparing their performance favourably to a 4 year-old HDD-based system. Quite amazing that they managed only to get 30% more performance whilst using 100% flash (which offers 15x more BW per device and 5000x more IOPS). The real question is, how can it be so slow? You'll find the answer below...