Excelero NVMesh powers Canada’s new SciNet Petascale Storage Facility

Today Excelero announced that SciNet, Canada's largest supercomputer center, has deployed Excelero's NVMesh server SAN for the highly efficient, cost-effective storage behind a new supercomputer at the University of Toronto. "For SciNet, NVMesh is an extremely cost-effective method of achieving unheard-of burst buffer bandwidth," said Dr. Daniel Gruner, chief technical officer, SciNet High Performance Computing Consortium. "By adding commodity flash drives and NVMesh software to compute nodes, and to a low-latency network fabric that was already provided for the supercomputer itself, NVMesh provides redundancy without impacting target CPUs. This enables standard servers to go beyond their usual role in acting as block targets - the servers now can also act as file servers."

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