High Performance Computing

Didier Gava, HPC Architect

March 22, 2011

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LSI – Trustworthy and Deep

$2.8B revenue

Headquartered in Milpitas, CA

5,600 employees world-wide

30 years of technology leadership

1,700 PhD’s & MSEE’s

10,000 US patents

Q4 2010 Revenue

IP 4%

Engenio

Storage Systems 41%

Storage

Semi 37%

Networking 18%

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Engenio® Storage Group

External Storage

Systems

High-Performance SAN

Entry & Mid range SAN

NAS Gateways

External Storage

Software

Device Management

Data Management

Application Aware

Server RAID

SSD Accelerators

RAID Adaptors

RAID Software

Drives

Controllers

Enclosures

Engenio OS

Value Add SWn

Value Add SW1

Warranty

Solution Svcs

SW Maintenance

Products and Services

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Broad and Deep Customers And Partners

Enterprise Customers OEM/Disti Partners

Alliance

Partners

Current Products and Services

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Drive Enclosure Components

• DE5600 – 2U / 24 / 2.5”

– SAS, SAS SSD drives

– Fully redundant

– In production

• DE1600 – 2U / 12 / 3.5”

– SAS, SAS SSD

– Fully redundant

– In production

• DE6600 – 4U / 60 / 3.5”

– FC, SAS, SATA, SAS SSD

– Fully redundant

– FC version in production

– SAS version GA Mar 2011

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Storage System Components

• 2600 Controller – SAS, FC or iSCSI host attach

– 2 SAS ports standard per controller

– Optional additional SAS, FC or iSCSI ports per controller

– Install 1 or 2 controllers in disk enclosure to create RAID system

– Up to 8 ports of different host attach per system

– Up to 8GB memory per system

– Rich RAID feature set

– T10 PI drive support

– In production

• 5400 Controller – Stay Tuned for Announcement

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DE1600 DE6600 DE5600

Creating Storage Systems

Insert 1 or 2

LSI Controller(s) into enclosure

to create 1storage system

(RBOD)

Front

View

Rear

View

Any controller to ANY

enclosure

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2600 Platform Scaling

• 2.1 GB/s write bandwidth per system

WITH Cache Mirroring Enabled

• 24 drives minimum to saturate pair of 2600 controllers

• Use in DE600, DE5600 or DE1600 drive enclosure

• Scale up to192 drives by drive capacity and drive quantity

• 3TB, 2TB, 1TB capacity available

1 - RBOD 1 - RBOD 1 - RBOD

n/a 1 - JBOD 2 - JBOD

2-60 drives 2-120 drives 2-192 drives

120-240TB 240-360TB 360-540TB

2.1 GB/s writes 2.1 GB/s writes 2.1 GB/s writes

4.2 GB/s reads 4.2 GB/s reads 4.2 GB/s reads

2600 inside

DE6600 example

Drives and Drawers

Cooling

2600 – DE6600 enclosure

Power

Controllers

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FastStak Solution

• 80GB/s in 1 rack – optimized for bandwidth

• Purpose built for parallel file systems

• 80GB/s sustained disk read throughput per

industry standard 40U rack

• 60GB/s sustained disk write throughput

• 800,000 sustained IOPs from disk

• 480 SAS drives in 2U/24/2.5” enclosures

• 8,000W per rack

• Proven data protection and availability

Goes Fast

Always On

Start Small, Grow Big

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DenseStak Solution

• 1.8PB in 1 rack – optimized for capacity

• Industry unique 4U /60 front load and service

drive enclosure

• 600 SAS drives deliver 1.8PB capacity

• 42GB/s sustained disk read throughput

• 400,000 sustained IOPs from disk

• Purpose built for parallel file systems

• No service ladder or ear plugs needed

Goes Fast

Always On

Start Small, Grow Big

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Engenio Operating System v10.4 – Management Interfaces

– Storage and Volume Management

– Data Security & Integrity

– Reliability/Availability/Serviceability (RAS)

– Advanced Data Protection Copy Services

Key Benefits

– Proven 7th generation storage management software • Lower storage management costs with centralized administration

• Common interface across all LSI ESG products – 2600, 4900, 5400, 7900

• Investment protection: common on-disk data format enables “data intact” upgrades

– Flexible configurations; non-disruptive storage and volume management

– Ensured data security and integrity

– High system reliability and data availability

– Advanced Copy Services for a complete data protection strategy

SANtricity® Storage Manager Software

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Engenio Trusted Storage

• Field-proven with over 500,000 systems installed

• Architected over time to provide the highest availability and reliability

– 7th generation controller technology

– 20 years of firmware development

Key Features

• Reliability

• Proactive drive and I/O monitoring

• Embedded system health checks

• Availability

• Redundancy checks during RAID group configuration

• Enhanced drive recovery

• Data Integrity

• T10-PI data integrity check

• Serviceability

• Extensive diagnostic data capture and statistics collection

• FRU replacements while in operation

• Front loading high density drive enclosure

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Feature Description Benefits

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Volume Management

HotAdd Technology

Dynamic Volume Expansion (DVM) Dynamic RAID Level Migration (DRM) Dynamic Segment Size Migration (DSS)

Dynamic Capacity Expansion (DCE) Dynamic Defragmentation

Flexible configurations

Ease-of-use

DACstore Configuration data is stored on every

logical drive

Higher system availability

Partitions Creates multiple virtual systems from a

single disk system

Multiple virtual systems from a

single disk system

Encryption LSI SafeStore™ encryption services, and

disk-level FDE, secure stored data

Enhanced data security

Ad

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Serv

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Snapshot A point-in-time image of a logical drive Protection against accidental or

malicious loss or corruption of data

Volume Copy Point-in-time replication of one logical

drive to another within a disk array

Additional protection against master

volume or RAID set failure

Remote

Mirrors

Provides replication and mirroring of a

logical drive from one storage subsystem to another (synchronous or asynchronous)

Protection against local and wide

area disasters

Engenio Operating System (EOS) Features & Benefits

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Warranty, Support and Services

• 3 year hardware warranty

• Level 1, Level 2, Level 3 support and maintenance

• 24 x 7 x 365

• World-wide parts depots

• Customer replaceable

• Professional Services

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Consider LSI

• A stable, credible participant in the HPC

industry

• Storage industry technology leader from

systems to chips

• A broad, scalable storage product line

• 500,000 storage systems shipped

• High performance

• High reliability

• Start small / Grow big

• Extensive support and service

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