Los Alamos National Labs Selects Aeon Computing’s Lustre/OpenZFS for 28PB Lustre file system
For Immediate Release
Los Alamos National Labs Selects Aeon Computing’s Next Generation of Supercomputing Infrastructure
Aeon Computing delivers two site-wide Lustre File Systems to meet existing and future demands for parallel access data storage performance for laboratory’s technical computing program.
San Diego, November 16, 2015
News Facts
- Los Alamos National Security, LLC (LANS) has selected high-performance storage from Aeon Computing to support its Advanced Simulation and Institutional Computing programs, which encompass a broad range of secure and collaborative scientific efforts that involve national security, physical and environmental sciences, cosmology, and other scientific research at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL).
- LANL is one of the premier supercomputing and scientific research institutions in the world. Its mission is to solve national security challenges through scientific excellence. To support and enhance its constantly evolving environment for scientific simulations and technical computing architectures, LANL sought a high-performance, open, scalable, and reliable site-wide Lustre file system that represented the best overall value.
- LANL selected Aeon Computing’s high-performance open Lustre Scalable Unit to meet the compute-intensive demands of several computing clusters by delivering two separate file systems. Each system featured 14 Petabytes of storage capacity and up to 160 GB/second I/O performance using Lustre on OpenZFS file system.
- Aeon Computing’s deployment represents the largest known ZFS-based Lustre file system that does not rely on hardware-based or proprietary RAID storage technology.
Lustre on OpenZFS: Performance and Reliability Based on Open Standards
Using Aeon Computing’s Lustre storage, LANL brings a large, reliable, and open standards-based performance tier data storage resource to its different HPC platforms, with shared access across its wide-ranging supercomputing environment.
Aeon Computing’s Lustre file system, based on its Lustre Scalable Unit, delivers 14 Petabytes at up to 160 Gigabytes per second performance over single-rail FDR14 Infiniband. Each Lustre Scalable Unit is comprised of two Lustre OSS nodes and 120 6 Terabyte Enterprise 12G SAS disk drives employing OpenZFS with raidz2 data parity protection. Additional resiliency is provided by multipath and high-availability failover connectivity, eliminating single points of failure. The two 14 Petabyte file systems deployed by LANL use 5,020 6 Terabyte disk drives combined.
Aeon Computing’s Lustre File System has the ability to handle a wide range of compute-driven storage and data I/O workloads, ranging from small jobs to jobs spanning many thousands of processor cores in parallel.
Aeon Computing, a leading HPC and Lustre file system storage vendor, has been awarded a contract by Los Alamos National Security, LLC (LANL) to provide two Lustre file systems to enhance LANL’s technical supercomputing capabilities in support of its national security mission. Each of the two Lustre file systems provides 14 Petabytes of data storage capacity and is capable of up to 160 Gigabytes per second of parallel access performance. These next-generation systems push the limits of Lustre storage performance.
The two 14 Petabyte Lustre file systems will serve the intense data IO workloads of both the facility-wide open research computing and the security-focused computing missions. Each file system is connected to the high-speed computing fabric, with 2.35 Terabits per second of fabric bandwidth using FDR14 Infiniband. The two Lustre file systems employ OpenZFS and high-availability for data integrity and redundancy. Each Lustre file system contains 40 Lustre OSS nodes, each capable of 4 Gigabytes per second of sustained data performance. The two Lustre file systems are powered by end-to-end enterprise-grade technology, including LSI/Avago 12G SAS (serial attached SCSI), Mellanox FDR14 Infiniband, HGST 12G Enterprise SAS disk drives, SanDisk 12G SAS SSDs, and Intel server technologies.
The file systems are integrated into site-wide monitoring infrastructure without the need for cumbersome or closed vendor APIs. “We were targeting an open solution that would utilize our Tri-Lab Operating System TOSS with Lustre, and provide a great performance to cost ratio,” says Kyle Lamb, Infrastructure Team Lead in the High Performance Computing Division at Los Alamos National Laboratory. “Utilizing commodity hardware and OpenZFS for RAID provides a cost-effective high performance solution with the added benefit of compression to increase available usable capacity. This allows us to provide the high density performance required for our existing clusters as well as our future Commodity Technology Systems.”
According to Jeff Johnson, co-founder of Aeon Computing, “We were able to architect a Lustre file system to meet LANL’s needs that was affordable and employed open standards in hardware and software. We were able to deliver a solution that met and exceeded LANL’s rigorous demands of multi-system HPC data IO and provide a system that was truly open.”
The Aeon Lustre Scalable Unit is a 12U system containing 120 enterprise SAS disk drives and two Lustre OSS system nodes that are fully redundant and hot-swappable, including hot-swap OSS nodes. The Lustre Scalable Unit features 12G SAS storage technology and supports single and dual raid QDR, FDR and EDR Infiniband as well as Intel’s Omnipath fabric and 10/40/100 Gigabit Ethernet. The Aeon Computing Lustre Scalable Unit is available for sale and can be used in a wide range of Lustre file system designs.
Visit Aeon Computing in booth 1746 at SC15 to see their Lustre Scalable Unit and Eclipse-NV NVMe storage system.
About Aeon Computing
Aeon Computing is based in San Diego, California and has over 55 years of staff experience in high performance computing, enterprise computing architectures, and data storage, with a focus on architecting perfectly suited customer solutions. Their customers include academic, government, and commercial institutions that prefer high performance design over stock solutions.
About Los Alamos
Los Alamos National Laboratory, a multidisciplinary research institution engaged in strategic science on behalf of national security, is operated by Los Alamos National Security, LLC, a team composed of Bechtel National, the University of California, BWX Technologies, Inc. and URS for the Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration. Los Alamos enhances national security by ensuring the safety and reliability of the U.S. nuclear stockpile, developing technologies to reduce threats from weapons of mass destruction, and solving problems related to energy, environment, infrastructure, health, and global security concerns.
Contact
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Co-founder, Aeon Computing
858.412.3810
doug.johnson@aeoncomputing.com
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