On July 9th 2015, 2CRSI announced its latest storage system: 2U24NVMe, which features 24 NVMe SSD drives, which are individually 10 to 12 times faster than SATA/SAS SSD. Jean Georges Perrin, 2CRSI Corporation's COO introduces you to this wonderful solution... and more. This presentation was given first on July 13th 2015 at the ISC HPC conference in Frankfurt, Germany.

1. When High-Performance
Computing meets
High-Performance Storage
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Dipl. Ing. Jean Georges Perrin | 2CRSI | jgp@2crsi.com

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2CRSI’s 2U24NVMe
Introducing 2U24NVMe,
the High-Performance Storage System by 2CRSI
o World first
o Taylor Pass Intel® motherboard with up to 2x Xeon v3 CPU
o Up to 1024GB memory
o Available in 19.2TB, 28.8TB, 38.4TB, 48TB, and 76.8TB
o Available with up to 4x 40Gb/s Ethernet
o Available with InfiniBand
o Made in France
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So Let’s Talk about Planes
© Lockheed Martin
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A Certain Idea of Luxury
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The colorful cocktail lounge of the Boeing
Stratocruiser is located on the lower deck of the
airplane, 1945.

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Another of my Favorite Planes
Douglas DC-6A (Wikipedia)

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Planes were Used to Transport Data
• IBM RAMAC
• First disk appeared in 1956
• 5MB
• 1T
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Retraunot

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But Enough About Planes…
Lockheed Constellation © Alexander Russy

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Size Does NOT Matter
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Today:
76.8TB in 2U
(check out the price at booth #1251)
1956:
5MB in a lot of “U”s…
$34.5k (1956) = $302k (2015)
15,360,000 units
$530b (1956) = $4,634b (2015)

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Throughput
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1956
IBM™ RAMAC
1KB/s
0.001MB/s
0.000001GB/s
2015
HGST™
Ultrastar™ He8
2050000KB/s
205MB/s
0.205GB/s
2015
Intel®
SSD DC P3700
Series
28000000KB/s
2800MB/s
2.8GB/s
450,000 Read IOPS
(Random read, 100% span)

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How Does the 2U24NVMe Work?
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CPU #1
CPU #2
Drive #1
Drive #2
Drive #3
Drive #10
Drive #11
Drive #12
Drive #13
Drive #14
Drive #15
Drive #22
Drive #23
Drive #24
…
…
PCIe
Multiplexer
SSD #1
…
SSD #8
PCIe
Multiplexer
InfiniBand
40 GbE #1
40 GbE #2
40 GbE #3
40 GbE #4
SATA I/O
1TB RAM

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Where are we Coming From?
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In 2014,
2CRSI introduced HEXAPHI™
• 6 Intel™ Xeon™ Phi™ in 2U
• 8.92 teraFLOPS
• Under 2000W

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What Does it Look Like?
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So who Are you Going to Fly With?
The Wright brothers at the controls of Flyer 1 © Library of Congress (LoC).
Star Trek Enterprise © Wikipedia
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Thank you
Merci Danke
Dank U
Gracias
谢谢
‫شكرا‬‫لكم‬
‫תודה‬ Diolch yn fawr Dankie dat jy
Grazie
Falemnderit
Շնորհակալություն
Eskerrik asko
Grazia
Kiitos
σας ευχαριστώ
Hvala ti puno
Obrigado
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Jean Georges Perrin
COO
2CRSI Corporation
jgp@2crsi.com
Adrien Badina
CTO
2CRSI SAS
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Sources
• http://blog.2crsi.com
• http://www.2crsi.com
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_IBM_magnetic_disk_dr
ives
• http://data.bls.gov/cgi-
bin/cpicalc.pl?cost1=530&year1=1956&year2=2015
• http://www.pcworld.com/article/127105/article.html