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In May 2021, Dell announced the brand-new advanced PowerScale F900. Its chassis uses the 2U PowerEdge R740XD and offers 24 x 2.5”NVMe All-Flash SSDs in each node, with a per-SSD storage capacity ranging from 1.92 TB, 3.84 TB, 7.68 TB to 15.36 TB, and a total storage capacity of 47 TB, 93 TB, 185 TB, and 369 TB per node. It also supports SED encrypted clusters with a maximum of 92 PB per single storage.
In June 2020, Dell announced the Gen6.5 PowerScale model of the Isilon Scale-Out NAS and further changed the product brand name to PowerScale. Dell’s naming policy was also adopted for the Power family, such as PowerStore, PowerMax, and PowerFlex.
At the same time, Dell also announced two brand-new models: the PowerScale F200 and the PowerScale F600. They come in a 1U PowerEdge R640 chassis and are powered by OneFS 9.0 to deliver the same software functions as Isilon and are equipped with SAS SSDs and all-flash NVMe SSDs, 25-100GHz high-speed network bandwidth, a maximum of 15.80 million IOPS, and a system throughput of 945 GB/s.
In May 2021, Dell announced the brand-new advanced PowerScale F900. Its chassis uses the 2U PowerEdge R740XD and offers 24 x 2.5” NVMe All-Flash SSDs in each node, with a per-SSD storage capacity ranging from 1.92 TB, 3.84 TB, 7.68 TB to 15.36 TB, and a total storage capacity of 47 TB, 93 TB, 185 TB, and 369 TB per node. It also supports SED encrypted clusters with a maximum of 92 PB per single storage.
For network connectivity, the front-end network supports 10/25 and 40/100 GbE and the back-end 100 GbE and InfiniBand (IB), with connection and backward compatibility for Gen5 models.
In addition, the PowerScale F900 adopts high-level dual CPUs and Nvidia GPU Direct technology and provides built-in inline compression and deduplication for users to expand effective storage by over 4 times through data compression.
Currently, the PowerScale F900 is powered by OneFS 9.2 to enhance the sequential write speed by 30% compared to that of the Isilon F800 and F810 and 70% higher compared to that of the PowerScale F600. The performance of the PowerScale F900 can be boosted by upgrading to OneFS 9.3.
In the future, the PowerScale F900 will gradually replace the Isilon F800 and F810 to become an advanced all-flash model that delivers higher performance, wider network bandwidth, more storage space, and new technology to provide better application performance in AI, big data analysis, DNA sequencing, and high-resolution audio and video editing for the manufacturing, healthcare, multimedia, and related industries.
• AI/ML/DL: e.g. TensorFlow, Spark ML, Nvidia, ADAS
• Stream and IoT: e.g. Nautilus, Kafka, Splunk
• Big Data and Hadoop: e.g. Cloudera, Hbase, Hive, Spark
• Cloud native: e.g. Kubernetes, Docker
• Cloud solutions: e.g. Google Cloud Platform, Microsoft Azure, AWS
• EDA: e.g. Synopsys, Cadence, Mentor
• NGS and PACS: e.g. Broad Institute GATK, Illumina, GE
• Multimedia editing/management/streaming: e.g. Grass Valley, Adobe, Apple, Sony
• Video surveillance: e.g. Genetec, Milestone
• File sharing, archive, backup, etc.
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