A recent press release reports, “DDN®, the global leader in AI, HPC and Multicloud Data Management, today announced EXA5, the next generation of DDN’s EXAScaler® Storage… Expanding on DDN’s leading at-scale solutions, EXA5 provides deeper, more powerful integrations into AI and HPC ecosystems through simpler implementation and scaling models, easier visibility into workflows and powerful global data management features. ‘We’ve built EXA5 directly for the new era of HPC and AI in the context of Multicloud. We are introducing an entirely new set of features aimed at today’s most demanding AI and HPC end-to-end requirements, at any scale,’ said James Coomer, senior vice president of products, DDN. “EXA5 leads on performance, on prem and in the cloud, with unmatched capabilities in security, stability, user and data management’.”

The release goes on, “EXA5 allows for scaling either with all NVMe flash or with a hybrid approach, offering flexible scaling according to needs with the performance of flash or the economics of HDDs. Compatible with DDN’s A3I® storage solutions, which are factory pre-configured and optimized for AI, deployment is made easy while reducing deployment time for an AI-ready data center. Together they provide full benchmarking, documentation and qualification with AI and GPU environments. ‘With the goal of expanding the boundaries of science as we know it today, we are excited about the arrival of advanced new technology that can dramatically increase the performance at scale of our systems, and specifically of our new Top 10 supercomputer, Frontera,’ said Dan Stanzione, executive director, Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC). ‘DDN’s new EXA5 has the power to provide the best I/O performance our users have ever experienced, and greatly reduce the I/O bottlenecks in large scale computation. We believe that EXA5 will play a role in many of the groundbreaking discoveries scientists will make with Frontera’.”

Read more at PR Newswire.

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