AUSTIN, Texas, Nov. 18 /PRNewswire/ -- SC08 -- DataDirect Networks, Inc.
(DDN) the data infrastructure provider for the most extreme, highest
performance computing environments in the world, today announced that its
flagship S2A9900 data infrastructure platform won HPCwire's Editor's Choice
Award for Best HPC Storage Product or Technology. The award was presented
yesterday at SC08, the international conference for high performance
computing, networking, storage and analysis.
"Every year we survey our readers in order to determine which vendors,
products and technologies are making the biggest impact within the HPC
community," said Diane Lieberman, publisher of HPCwire. "The HPCwire Editors'
Choice Award recognizes those vendors that deliver technology innovation and
products of the highest quality, design, and service. We congratulate DDN on
this achievement."
The coveted Editors' Choice Awards are determined through online polling
of the global HPCwire audience, along with a rigorous selection process
involving HPCwire editors and industry luminaries. The awards are an annual
feature of the publication, presented at the beginning of the Supercomputing
conference, and constitute prestigious recognition from the HPC community.
"It is through ongoing feedback and close collaboration with distinguished
HPC clients such as Argonne, Lawrence Livermore, NASA and Oak Ridge that DDN
continues to transcend the boundaries of HPC storage technology innovation,"
said Alex Bouzari, CEO and Co-founder, DDN. "We are honored by this award
which recognizes our dedication to excellence and focus on delivering
superior, purpose-built solutions with extreme levels of intelligence,
designed to solve HPC problems that other vendors simply can't. There is a
reason why DDN powers the world's fastest supercomputers, file systems and
storage environments and that reason is highlighted ever so clearly today."
About the S2A9900
As DDN's flagship eighth generation S2A platform, the industry-leading
S2A9900 provides extreme performance and capacity, with the ability to manage
1.2 petabytes in only two floor tiles and deliver sustained throughput of up
to 6 gigabytes per second for both writes and reads, per appliance. In a
cluster formation, S2A platforms are delivering over 200 gigabytes per second
of throughput in leading HPC environments today.
The S2A9900 enables HPC sites to run multiple applications simultaneously
in parallel, whereas conventional, general purpose storage systems force them
to run applications sequentially, costing more time, more money and more
management personnel. Additionally, the S2A9900 is the only storage platform
that writes data as fast as it reads it, with guaranteed QoS, which translates
into consistently predictable performance for large content files -- critical
for HPC environments.
For more information about the awards, visit http://www.HPCwire.com.
For more information about DDN S2A platforms, visit:
http://www.datadirectnet.com/s2a-platform/s2a-platform
About HPCwire
Published by Tabor Communications, HPCwire is the most recognized and
accessed news and information site covering the entire ecosystem of High
Productivity Computing (HPC). HPCwire is the publication of choice for the
global community of business and technology professionals interested in
computationally- and data-intensive computing, including infrastructure topics
such as software, middleware, hardware, networking, storage, tools and
applications. HPCwire delivers exclusive interviews with industry leaders on
topics ranging from business and economic issues to advanced and emerging
technology directions, all in a timely and easily-accessible Internet format.
With a powerful combination of email distribution and web site portal, HPCwire
is enjoyed each week by several hundred thousand readers. HPCwire can be found
online at http://www.HPCwire.com.
About DataDirect Networks
DataDirect Networks, Inc. (DDN) is the data infrastructure provider for
the most extreme, content-intensive environments in the world-including the
largest online gaming and music sites, social networking applications
developers, photo and video sharing services, high performance computing
environments, and more than 400 broadcast and post-production facilities
around the globe. With more than 160 petabytes installed worldwide, the
company's S2A(TM) (Silicon Storage Architecture(TM)) technology delivers
massive throughput, scalable capacity, consistency, efficiency and data
integrity for today's extremely competitive and evolving markets. Founded in
1998, DDN serves customers through its global partnerships with Dell, IBM,
Sony and other industry leaders; and through its offices in Europe, India,
Asia Pacific, Japan and throughout the U.S. For more information, go to
http://www.datadirectnet.com or call +1-800-TERABYTE (837-2298).
DataDirect Networks, S2A and Silicon Storage Architecture are trademarks
of DataDirect Networks, Inc. All other trademarks are the property of their
respective owners.
Media Contacts:
DataDirect Networks
Kim Nelson Steve Zivanic
+1 (818) 336-2162 +1 (818) 675-2821
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