LSI said that Cray has selected its Engenio 2600 storage system for integration with the new CX1000 supercomputer, which is designed for data-intensive, high-performance computing (HPC) environments.
According to LSI, the 2600 system features 6Gb/s SAS technology and combines multi-protocol host connectivity, drive support, a management interface and energy-saving features. It integrates LSI controller technology with host interface connectivity and offers 2X IOPS (input/output operations per second) improvement in random disk reads compared to its predecessor.
Ian Miller, senior vice president of the productivity solutions group and marketing at Cray, said: The Cray CX1000 supercomputer is our first system based on Intel processors and an InfiniBand interconnect designed to fit between our Cray CX1 desktop line and our Cray XT family of supercomputers.
“The Cray CX1000 system is tightly integrated with the LSI Engenio 2600 to allow customers to address both computational and storage requirements within a single system. The 2600 system is the perfect complement to the new Cray CX1000 supercomputer and our overall vision of adaptive supercomputing.
