Dr. Mark Seager of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory to Present at
DataDirect’s Japan Technical Seminar -- ‘Storage Systems for Petaflop
Clusters’
CHATSWORTH, Calif. and TOKYO, Dec. 5 /Xinhua-PRNewswire/ -- DataDirect
Networks Inc., the storage performance and capacity leader, announced today
that the company has opened a fully-owned subsidiary in Japan, DataDirect
Networks Japan. The subsidiary will provide sales, marketing, training and
technical support to its OEM customers and partners in Japan, and together
with DataDirect’s Chinese subsidiary, will also support the expansion of the
company across Asia.
"DataDirect Networks, with the help of our Asian partners, has been an
established icon in the Asia Pacific media and entertainment market for over
a decade and enjoys a large installed base in Japan," said Paul Bloch,
president of DataDirect Networks. "Japan is also a leading market for high-
performance computing and we are now seeing a massive shift toward scalar-
based, clustered architectures -- an area where DataDirect’s Silicon Storage
Appliance storage solutions are the preeminent choice for large compute
cluster applications. We feel the timing is perfect to establish a local
presence in Japan to better support our customers and partners, and to
capitalize on this growing opportunity for high performance, high capacity
storage solutions in the APAC markets. Additionally, we will make an
official announcement of our new Japan subsidiary at a premiere event that we
are hosting for the high performance computing community on December 7th."
DataDirect Networks’ Silicon Storage Appliance (S2A) is used by many top
tier Japanese television stations, media and internet companies, as well as
leading universities and manufacturing companies in Japan, including the
University of Tokyo and the Japan Advanced Institute of Science and
Technology (JAIST) near Kanazawa.
About DataDirect Networks’ Technical Storage System Seminar
DataDirect Networks’ CEO Alex Bouzari and CTO David Fellinger, and Dr.
Mark K. Seager, Head, Advanced Technology, Computing Group, Lawrence
Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), as well as Dr. Peter Braam, President &
CEO, Cluster File Systems Inc. will be presenting at the DataDirect Networks
Japan Technical Seminar "Storage Systems for Petaflop Clusters" on December
7, 2006 in Tokyo.
The seminar will consist of two sessions. Session 1 will cover "Storage
Systems for Large-Scale HPC Clusters and Real-Time Environments" with Dr.
Seager speaking on "Petaflop Application Performance: Experiences with Large
Clusters and Storage Systems at LLNL." In addition, Alex Bouzari will give a
presentation on "Building Storage Systems for High-Performance Computing and
Rich Media." Session 2 will feature "Future Technologies for Extreme
Scalability and Performance" with Dave Fellinger discussing "The Future of
the S2A Architecture: Building Highly Scalable Storage Systems for Petaflop
Clusters." In addition, Dr. Braam will speak about "Scalable File Systems
for Petaflop Clusters: Present Status and Future Evolution of the Lustre File
System."
The Technical Seminar will be held at 14:00-18:30 in the Sumitomo Skyroom
A, Room 1, Shinjuku Sumitomo Building, 47F, Tokyo, Shinjuku, Nishi-Shinjuku 2-
6-1. DataDirect Networks will be hosting a reception in Room 2 to celebrate
the opening of its new Japan Subsidiary.
About DataDirect Networks Silicon Storage Appliance
Over the last three years, DataDirect Networks has achieved an astounding
150 percent growth in the storage capacity shipped to its HPC customers,
becoming the storage of choice for many government, academia and corporate
supercomputing sites, and ranked as the 5th largest independent storage
provider by Gartner. DataDirect Networks’ Silicon Storage Appliance (S2A)
family of products are in production in 7 out of the top 10 clusters in the
world, and 36 of the Top 100 supercomputing sites in the world with major
installations at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories, Sandia National
Laboratories, PCS, NCSA, NOAA, NASA and NASA Ames, NERSC, SDSC, LNXI, ORNL,
Argonne National Laboratory, CEA, Dresden TUD, and many others.
DataDirect Networks’ success is driven by its industry leading S2A
technology, a 7th generation RAID storage networking system and solutions
with FC-4 and InfiniBand front end server connectivity, and Fibre Channel and
SATA back-end disk support. The S2A delivers ultra-high levels of
performance (3 GB/s), scalability (1,000 disks) and reliability (multiple
levels of redundancy with continuous on-the-fly data protection with no loss
of performance) across a broad range of computational, visualization, and
nearline environments. DataDirect Networks’ S2A offers broad infrastructure
support and sales through IBM, Dell, Cray, SGI, Bull, Autodesk, Sony, Thomson
and others.
About DataDirect Networks
DataDirect Networks is the world’s leading provider of high performance,
high capacity network storage solutions. Focused on driving customer-centric
innovation, DataDirect Networks has created the Silicon Storage Appliance as
the essential building block for High Performance Computing, Internet-based
Services and Rich Media storage solutions. DataDirect Networks’ award
winning Silicon Storage Appliance enables the creation of differentiated high
performance, high capacity NAS/SAN, cluster computing, production and
nearline, and virtual tape library storage solutions. Each solution offers
unsurpassed performance, high availability, cost effective scalability and
simplified management delivering the industry’s best price per performance
and best per capacity per square foot solutions.
Launched in 1998 and headquartered in California, DataDirect Networks has
an established global presence with research and development, and operations
in the United States, Europe and Asia. For more information, contact
DataDirect Networks at (818) 700-7600 or visit
http://www.datadirectnet.com . For Japan or Asia Pacific inquiries, contact
Robert Triendl, Director, HPC, Asia Pacific, DataDirect Networks Japan,
Shibuya Mark City 22W, 1-12-1 Dogenzaka, Shibuya, Tokyo 150-0043, Tel: +81
(0) 3-4360-5686.
DataDirect Networks and Silicon Storage Appliance are trademarks of
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owners.