Panasas to Showcase New Products, Sponsor VIP Breakfast and Speaker Series at SC08
ActiveStor Product Family and ActiveScale Operating Environment to be Demonstrated
FREMONT, Calif., Nov. 11 /PRNewswire/ -- Panasas, Inc., the global leader
in parallel storage solutions, will sponsor a wide array of events and
speakers at the SuperComputing 2008 (SC08) conference taking place November
15-21 in Austin, Texas.
Panasas will sponsor a VIP Breakfast that will feature a discussion with
speakers from Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) about the Roadrunner
project, the world's fastest supercomputer. LANL will discuss how they are
able to achieve a balanced petascale supercomputer including, compute,
networking and parallel storage. SC08 delegates are invited to register to
attend the VIP breakfast by visiting the Panasas Events page at
http://www.panasas.com/upcomingevents.html.
In addition to the VIP Breakfast, Panasas is sponsoring a speaker series
in the Panasas Theater (booth #1721) that will feature 15 presentations from
prominent industry figures from companies such as Ansys, CD-adapco, Cisco,
Dell, Force 10, General Atomics, Microsoft and SGI. A highlight of the speaker
series will include Panasas' Founder and CTO Garth Gibson discussing the
upcoming pNFS standard (NFS v4.1) and its impact on the high-performance
computing world.
Panasas will also be demonstrating their recent product updates at booth
1721, including the ActiveStor 6000 and 4000 primary storage solutions. The
ActiveStor 6000 and 4000 deliver up to 700 MB/s per shelf, scaling to more
than 20GB/s in a single file system, and now support all cluster networks: 1Gb
Ethernet, 10Gb Ethernet and InfiniBand. Panasas will also be showcasing the
industry's first fully parallel second-tier storage solution and newest
addition to the ActiveStor product family, the ActiveStor 200. In addition to
the latest hardware components, Panasas will be demonstrating the ActiveScale
3.2 operating environment with Panasas' Tiered Parity Architecture, a major
extension to disk array data reliability. In the Penguin Computing booth,
Panasas storage will be incorporated into a demonstration of Ansys'
visualization software, highlighting the benefits of a parallel storage
environment for industries heavy in design and modeling.
"High-performance computing professionals need simple, reliable,
high-performance storage in order to achieve the maximum return on their
investment in compute capacity and applications," said Randy Strahan, chief
executive officer at Panasas. "The Panasas ActiveStor platform provides the
most complete set of high-performance storage solutions supporting every
cluster network, delivering unsurpassed results to technical organizations in
nearly every market segment."
About Panasas
Panasas, Inc., the global leader in parallel storage solutions, helps
commercial, government and academic organizations accelerate their time to
results leading to faster breakthroughs in solving real world problems.
Panasas' high-performance storage systems enable customers to maximize the
benefits of their technical and scientific computing investments by
eliminating the storage bottleneck created by legacy network storage
technologies. Panasas(R) ActiveStor Parallel Storage Solutions, in conjunction
with the ActiveScale(R) Operating Environment and PanFS(TM) parallel file
system, offer the most comprehensive platform of parallel storage solutions
for data intensive environments. Panasas is headquartered in Fremont,
California. For more information, please visit http://www.panasas.com.
Panasas, ActiveScale, DirectFLOW, PanFS, and Tiered Parity are trademarks
or registered trademarks of Panasas, Inc. All other trademarks are the
property of their respective owners.
