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InfiniBand Attached Storage

The PANTAmatrix InfiniBand attached storage module contains 16 SATA disk drives. It has two high performance RAID controllers with 256 MB of cache each. Depending on the type of disk drives used, the module can sustain well over 1GB/s of I/O to storage.

  • 16 spindles in 3U enclosure
  • Dual-core Opteron™, 4GB memory
  • Compact Flash boot
  • SATA drives 10K RPM
  • Dual port InfiniBand/DDR (20 Gbps/port)
  • Dual Raid Controllers
  • >1GB/s sustained transfer rate
  • 30K IOPs (32KB I/O's)
  • Redundant I/O paths
  • Hot swap drives, fans and power
  • Battery backup

The PANTA SRPT storage agent includes Volume Management and LUN masking capabilities and implements the SCSI RDMA Protocol (SRP) to present a standard block device interface to the compute modules.