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Conclusion and Future Work
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Conclusion and Future Work
The DellEMC Ready Solution for HPC PixStor Storage is a high-performance file system solution that is
very efficient, easy to manage, fully supported, multi-tier, scalable in throughput and in capacity and with
components to allow connecting it via standard protocols like NFS, SMB or Cloud. The solution is based on
PowerEdge servers and PowerVault ME4 storage arrays, and PixStor software from ArcaStream, with
components like Spectrum Scale (GPFS) and NVMesh.
Next project for the solution will be an update to support HDR100, along with some performance validation to
verify that performance remains very similar to those values reported in this document.
Next, there are plans for the addition of AMD based nodes to the NVMe Tier, along with performance
characterization of such nodes.
Finally, we want to try the Ngenea nodes in typical scenarios for HPC storage.
The vehicle to report results for the different pieces of future work is very likely technical Blogs.