Recent Posts by Pinkesh Valdria

We’re proud to announce our validation of the Quobyte file system on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). After automating the client and server deployment on OCI, we tested it for a range of use cases with large sequential IO and small files. We found that Quobyte is ideal for traditional high-performance computing (HPC) workloads with large sequential IO and parallel read and writes. It also demonstrates strength for more demanding small file workloads, such as fluid dynamics...

High-performance file systems support workloads that require the ability to read and write data at high throughput rates. Oracle Cloud Infrastructure high-performance computing (HPC) file systems (HFS), available on Oracle Cloud Marketplace, make it easy to deploy various industry leading high-performance file servers. In as little as three clicks, customers have a file server up and running at petabyte scale with double digit gigabyte throughput. Simple, Quick, and Easy...

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure was recently ranked the 7th-fastest performer on the IO500, a widely recognized high-performance storage IO benchmark. The vast majority of other systems on the list are specialized on-premises environments, including research supercomputers. We achieved 500 GB/s write IO throughput and 13.1 million IOPS in metadata performance with a high-performance parallel file system using 270 nodes in an HPC cluster network running the BeeGFS BeeOND file...

We’re pleased to announce availability of a highly available network filesystem (NFS) cluster with automated failover and no data replication to deliver high availability. On Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, you can achieve 50% savings in storage cost, by using Shared Block Storage, instead of Distributed Replicated Block Device (DRBD) , which require double storage capacity. With Shared Block Storage, you can attach block volumes to multiple Compute instances in a shareable read...

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure’s Generation 2 cloud is moving the needle for high-performance file servers in the cloud yet again. Oracle Cloud customers can now use Cluster Networking to get over 130 GB per second throughput in a cloud-based file server. Because BeeGFS on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure can feed the beast for high-performance computing (HPC), artificial intelligence, and machine learning workloads, we plan to include this file server in our HPC marketplace image. HPC...

Oracle collaborated with ThinkParQ, to provide high-performance file servers at scale on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.  Established as a spinoff from the Fraunhofer Center for High-Performance Computing, ThinkParQ drives the research and development of BeeGFS, and works closely with system integrators to create turn-key solutions. BeeGFS from ThinkParQ is a leading parallel cluster file system developed with a strong focus on input-output performance and designed for easy...

In this follow-up to our post about Deploying Lustre on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, we cover the results of running the industry-recognized IOR benchmark for the Lustre file system on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, and the cost to deploy Lustre on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. Architecture The Oracle Cloud HPC team tuned the Lustre file system and cloud infrastructure to provide high-performance file servers at scale by using Oracle Cloud Infrastructure’s bare metal Compute, a...

Many applications have strict requirements for storage bandwidth and latency. Some applications can’t migrate to Generation 1 clouds because those clouds don’t provide the throughput and price performance of an on-premises file server, but Oracle Cloud Infrastructure can.Oracle collaborated with IBM preferred partner Re-Store to provide high-performance file servers at scale on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. This solution meets the needs of HPC workloads like ML/AI, Electronic...

Lustre is an open source, parallel, distributed file system, generally used for high-performance computing (HPC) clusters and environments. The name Lustre is a portmanteau of Linux and cluster. Using Lustre, you can now build an HPC file server on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure’s bare metal Compute and network-attached block storage or NVMe SSDs locally attached to Compute nodes. To make it easier to deploy Lustre on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, we've released a new Terraform...