HPE launches cost-effective storage system for HPC and AI
Blocks&Files, Thursday, May 2nd, 2024
HPE has built a downsized ClusterStor supercomputer storage array for entry-level and mid-range HPC and AI compute clusters.
The ClusterStor line, acquired by HPE when it bought Cray in 2019, has a parallel architecture using SSDs and HDDs with Lustre file system software. Its XE E1000 model scales from 60 TB to tens of petabytes across hundreds of racks, each with up to 6.8 PB of capacity. It delivers up to 1.6 TBps and 50 million IOPS/rack. HPE positions ClusterStor as storage for exascale (Frontier, Aurora, El Capitan), pre-exascale (LUMI, Perlmutter, Adastra), and national AI supercomputers (Isambard-AI, Alps, Shaheen III) running Cray EX supercomputers.