ExERA
ExERA is an on-premise, purpose-built, engineered data archive solution specifically developed for HPC customers. The design principal centers around an architecture that delivers friction less scalability in 4 dimensions: Throughput, IOPS, a parallel file system and Exabyte-level capacity.
Throughput
Workspace design up to 100 GB/sec of ingest and recall.
Capacity
Non-disruptive, scalable performance to billions of files, objects and Exa-scale capacity
Secure
Designed for long retention periods of tens of years or more.
Accessibility
Standard access protocols like NFS, SMB, CIFS, S3, Swift and FTP.
Reliable
Fault tolerant and high availability, no single point of failure architecture.
Affordability
Tape is still the lowest cost $/PB even today and has a great technology roadmap.
ExERA is a purpose-built and engineered solution that delivers:
• Scalable IO throughput to support current and future requirements.
• Automatic movement of data to the correct archive storage target, based on policies and budgetary considerations.
• Operationally-resilient environment that has high availability and fault tolerance.
• High volume, bi-directional data movement from and to the HPC primary scratch storage and secondary processing to the workspace and archive layers to support the emerging AI, ML, DL, Big Data, Data Analytics, Data Mining and Data Lake requirements.
• Future-proofing by leveraging commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) with selected best-of-breed components and products.