Name: DDN Customer Success: NVIDIA Selene AI Supercomputer
Uploaded: 2021-11-09T11:22:20.000Z
Duration: 2 min 40 s
Description: DDN Customer Success: NVIDIA Selene AI Supercomputer

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DDN A³I is an AI storage platform designed to maximize data utilization, AI capabilities, and advanced analytics for businesses. According to the vendor, this solution is targeted at enterprises of all sizes, aiming to leverage AI and advanced analytics to gain a competitive edge. DDN A³I caters to the storage needs of data scientists and AI researchers while also benefiting IT professionals responsible for managing data infrastructure. Additionally, industries such as healthcare and life sciences, financial services, and manufacturing and industrial sectors can utilize DDN A³I to accelerate their AI-driven research and applications.

## Key Features

**Accelerated Any-Scale AI**: According to the vendor, DDN A³I accelerates AI workloads of any scale by leveraging parallel architecture to provide fast access to data across multiple systems simultaneously. It offers familiar interfaces and enables direct access to data, aiming to improve performance while maintaining efficient interfaces with on-premises and cloud storage.

**Easy to Deploy**: The vendor claims that DDN A³I provides a turnkey solution that simplifies the design, acquisition, and deployment of AI infrastructure. It scales as datasets grow and offers reference architectures for mission-critical AI deployments. The vendor states that it ensures easy integration with existing IT infrastructure, aiming to minimize complexity and enable rapid deployment.

**Easy to Manage**: According to the vendor, the platform offers comprehensive enterprise features that simplify the management of AI storage infrastructure. It provides extensive governance capabilities to organize and maintain data carefully. DDN A³I supports efficient data collection, curation, and management practices, aiming to enable organizations to standardize their data processes and streamline workflows.

**Unchallenged Performance**: The vendor asserts that DDN A³I delivers unchallenged performance for AI workloads, leveraging advanced storage technologies to optimize data access and processing. It enables organizations to leverage AI supercomputing power overnight, aiming to accelerate their initiatives and reduce time-to-insights. According to the vendor, the platform ensures predictable performance even as datasets and AI workloads scale.

**Predictable Limitless Scaling**: The vendor claims that DDN A³I offers predictable and limitless scaling capabilities, allowing organizations to grow their AI infrastructure without performance degradation. It is designed to handle large-scale AI workloads, seamlessly integrating with AI applications and computing resources. The vendor states that organizations can scale their AI infrastructure on-demand, accommodating the evolving needs of their projects.

DataDirect Networks (DDN) offers their SFA line of high density block storage solutions, including the SFA14KX and the SFA18K.

DDN A³I

High-density or density-optimized servers support high performance computing (HPC) and virtualization. These servers are generally deployed by companies offering cloud services, companies providing data center services, or others entities needing great computing power.

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DDN Customer Success: NVIDIA Selene AI Supercomputer

Find out why NVIDIA chose DDN A3I storage to power one of the world’s most powerful AI supercomputers, and listen in to Prethvi Kashinkunti, Senior Data Center Systems Engineer at NVIDIA, share about the process of designing, building and administering deep learning supercomputers at NVIDIA.

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Sr Network and Systems Engineer

DDN SFA Block Storage 2021-11-10 16:38:36

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DDN SFA Block Storages is used as a Storage Array giving out LUNS on a dedicated Fibre Channel San for a product called Genetec. This manages cameras, door access, and other areas for our physical security department. It is totally hidden from the normal user's view and is a back-end system.

Large storage array
Fibre channel storage using RAID arrays
Each SFA can grow with one master and up to 4 slaves
Up to PB or more of storage

The Disk array appliances load disks from the top
Cabler management is more than 4 feet long. Hard to find a rack it really fits in.
Interconnects between units need to be more seamless and easier to understand.

Easy to configure
Made for the DataCenter
Full setup takes up about 1/2 rack

ROI is that it seems very economical for massive video camera storage.
Dedicate a rack to it.
Best if all units are next to each other but do not have to be.

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DDN A³I

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