New Collaboration Brings High-Performance Data Platform with Built-In Orchestration to Supermicro’s Robust Server Lineup
Hammerspace, the company orchestrating the next data cycle, announced a strategic collaboration with Supermicro to deliver a powerful, unified data platform tailored for enterprise data centers and hybrid cloud storage. This collaboration allows Supermicro to resell Hammerspace’s cutting-edge software platform on Supermicro servers to serve both file and object storage workloads while meeting the performance and scale demands of modern AI, HPC and hybrid cloud environments.
“Supermicro and Hammerspace together exemplify our vision to unify and optimize data access across enterprise and cloud environments,” said Tony Asaro, Chief Strategy and Business Development Officer at Hammerspace. “By combining Hammerspace’s Global Data Platform software with Supermicro’s robust hardware, we’re redefining storage and performance for AI and HPC workloads.”
With Hammerspace’s built-in data orchestration and management capabilities, this platform empowers enterprises to seamlessly unify and access data across multi-site and hybrid cloud infrastructures. The certified, pre-configured bundles make deployment simple, ensuring that Supermicro’s customers can leverage a comprehensive storage solution that integrates effortlessly into their existing environments.
Hammerspace’s data platform on Supermicro Petascale storage servers together with CSP optimized CloudDC and highly configurable Hyper servers provide configuration flexibility, catering to a variety of deployment needs from small-scale to hyperscale. By integrating both file and object storage, coupled with Enterprise data management directly into the global data platform, Hammerspace enables efficient data movement and access across locations, eliminating data silos while delivering the high performance and reliability expected in modern enterprise data centers and hybrid cloud infrastructures.
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Exceptional MLPerf v1.0 Storage Benchmark Results
Hammerspace and Supermicro have demonstrated the transformative power of their combined technologies through groundbreaking MLPerf1.0 Storage Benchmark results. The benchmarks were conducted on Supermicro SYS-121C-TN10R servers equipped with ScaleFlux CSD5000 NVMe drives and validated the performance of Hammerspace both as server local Tier 0 and shared, external Tier 1 storage.
Demonstrated Benefits of Hammerspace Benchmark Tests on Supermicro Servers
The combination of Hammerspace’s parallel global file system, advanced data orchestration and Tier 0 storage provides unprecedented flexibility and performance for AI and HPC workloads, as demonstrated in the MLPerf benchmarks:
- Tier 0 Shared Storage with Hammerspace
- Massive Performance Efficiency with Tier 0: Hammerspace Tier 0 supports 32% more GPUs than external storage using the same NVMe devices and capacity. Leveraging the existing NVMe storage in compute servers provides the efficiency of leveraging already available storage capacity in compute nodes as part of the shared storage environment and adds an ultra-fast tier to the data architecture.
- Eliminating Network Bottlenecks: Tier 0 local NVMe storage bypasses network dependency entirely, enabling higher GPU utilization and more predictable performance.
- Checkpointing Acceleration: Leveraging Tier 0 storage reduces checkpointing durations from minutes to seconds, dramatically improving job efficiency and freeing GPU resources for additional compute tasks.
- Virtually Zero CPU Overhead: Tier 0 efficiently utilizes Linux kernel features to offload protocol services and metadata management, leaving server resources focused on compute-intensive tasks.
- Tier 0 Coupled with External Storage Shared Storage with Hammerspace
- Automated Data Movement and Orchestration: Built-in data orchestration simplifies the migration, replication, and placement of data, ensuring that workloads always have immediate access to the storage tier best suited for their performance and cost needs.
- Linear Scalability: Hammerspace’s global file system and Tier 0 architecture achieve consistent and predictable performance gains as clusters grow, making it easy to scale workloads without diminishing returns.
- Seamless Data Unification Across Storage Tiers: Hammerspace’s global namespace integrates server-local NVMe storage with network-connected external storage into a unified parallel file system, ensuring transparent access to data across the enterprise.
Source: Businesswire