NetApp ships Data ONTAP GX operating system

BANGALORE: Network

Appliance, Inc. is now shipping its new Data ONTAP GX operating system,

giving customers with high-performance computing (HPC) applications. Data ONTAP

GX is the result of over two years of strategic engineering work, combining the

global namespace functionality of SpinOS (which NetApp acquired when it bought

Spinnaker Networks) with the key data management, performance, and

high-availability features of Data ONTAP 7G, says company.

HPC customers in the areas of energy (seismic processing applications),

entertainment (movie content creation and visual effects rendering), and

electronic design automation (chip design and simulation) have an insatiable

demand for extreme levels of performance. Data ONTAP GX delivers what those

customers need, along with a single global namespace, which enables multiple

nodes to be presented to applications as a single system and data to be moved

between storage nodes and/or tiers transparently, simplifying data retrieval and

management, says company release.

Coupled with the new FAS6070 and/or FAS3050 system, HPC customers can

leverage the clustered file system technology inherent in Data ONTAP GX, which

enables individual files or datasets to be striped across multiple nodes to

achieve far greater performance than can be achieved with a traditional storage

system. For instance, Data ONTAP GX, coupled with the new FAS6070, scales in

capacity up to 6PB (peta bytes) and achieves more than 1 million operations per

second, based on the SPEC SFS benchmark.

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