[gpfsug-discuss] WekaIO Unveils Cloud-Native Scalable File System

[Sven Oehme]

while i really like competition on SpecSFS, the claims from the WekaIO
people are lets say 'alternative facts' at best
The Spectrum Scale results were done on 4 Nodes with 2 Flash Storage
devices attached, they compare this to a WekaIO system with 14 times more
memory (14 TB vs 1TB) , 120 SSD's (vs 64 Flashcore Modules) across 15 times
more compute nodes (60 vs 4) .
said all this, the article claims 1000 builds, while the actual submission
only delivers 500 --> https://www.spec.org/sfs2014/results/sfs2014.html
so they need 14 times more memory and cores and 2 times flash to show twice
as many builds at double the response time, i leave this to everybody who
understands this facts to judge how great that result really is.
Said all this, Spectrum Scale scales almost linear if you double the nodes
, network and storage accordingly, so there is no reason to believe we
couldn't easily beat this, its just a matter of assemble the HW in a lab
and run the test. btw we scale to 10k+ nodes , 2500 times the number we
used in our publication :-D

Sven

On Wed, Jul 12, 2017 at 9:06 AM Oesterlin, Robert <
Robert.Oesterlin at nuance.com> wrote:

> Interesting. Performance is one thing, but how usable. IBM, watch your
> back :-)
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> *“WekaIO is the world’s fastest distributed file system, processing four
> times the workload compared to IBM Spectrum Scale measured on Standard
> Performance Evaluation Corp. (SPEC) SFS 2014, an independent industry
> benchmark. Utilizing only 120 cloud compute instances with locally attached
> storage, WekaIO completed 1,000 simultaneous software builds compared to
> 240 on IBM’s high-end FlashSystem 900.”*
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> https://www.hpcwire.com/off-the-wire/wekaio-unveils-cloud-native-scalable-file-system/
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> Bob Oesterlin
> Sr Principal Storage Engineer, Nuance
> 507-269-0413 <(507)%20269-0413>
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