Teen Pennsylvania HPC storage pusher Panasas: Small files, fat nodes, sharp blades
Summary
We were given a sense of what might happen at a briefing in its Silicon Valley office, and learned that a strong trend in commercial HPC was the growth of small files. That means there is the possibility of moving to Skylake Xeons – when the small file and metadata processing load has risen sufficiently. Senior software architect Curtis Anderson told us: "Were not gated by compute power - we have a lot of director blades." Faye Pairman said Panasas had investors who are quite conservative and it is a small company, with 100 employees, with limited reach: "We go heavily in the USA but we’re more measured outside." Where the Pennsylvanian firm said it is a traditional and commercial HPC company, Qumulo describes itself as a universal scale-out filesystem storage business, with billion file scale and the highest performance.
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