Engenio 7900 HPC Storage System LSI In

Engenio 7900 HPC Storage System

LSI In HPC • LSI (Engenio Storage Group) has a rich, successful history of deploying storage solutions for the HPC market – Over 50 petabytes of LSI storage currently installed in HPC sites • LSI is focused on the HPC market as a strategic opportunity – These customers have the most demanding technology requirements and are often a leading indicator for technologies that will soon move into the mainstream • Examples include Linux clusters, Global File Systems, and Infini. Band – Making our technology available first to HPC customers benefits our General Purpose Computing, or GPC, products and customers • ESG recently established a cross-functional team focused on the HPC market designed to ensure that we maintain our HPC leadership LSI Confidential 2

Engenio 7900 HPC Storage System Flagship storage system designed for compute-intensive applications Bullet-proof reliability and availability to ensure continuous high-speed data delivery Scalability up to 480 TB satisfies the most demanding capacity requirements Robust storage management supports unparalleled configuration flexibility and online administration LSI Confidential 3

Engenio 7900 HPC Storage System The 7900 HPC storage system is uniquely positioned to deliver HPC-class performance with uncompromising uptime to ensure continuous high-speed data access LSI Confidential 4

Performance + Uptime = Computational Efficiency HPC Performance Reliability and Availability • Industry-leading 6. 4 GB/s on sustained reads from disk • Proven architecture based on over 30 years of design knowledge and firmware development • Lineage of balanced performance excels at mixed workloads • Field-replaceable host interface cards adapt to changing infrastructure – – 4 Gb/s FC 20 Gb/s IB 8 Gb/s FC (future) 40 Gb/s IB (future) LSI Confidential – Almost 400 K systems shipped • Uninterrupted data uptime – Five 9 s availability – No single point of failure – Fully-redundant data path with automated failover – Battery-backed controller cache mirroring – Proactive drive health monitoring – Hardware-assist RAID 6 – Read parity check 5

7900 HPC Positioning Ideal for environments that store vast amounts of data for high -bandwidth programs • Computational analysis • Upstream/downstream processing • Genomics • Satellite ground stations • Data-intensive research • 3 -D computer modeling • Seismic processing • Data mining • Large-scale simulation LSI Confidential 6

7900 HPC Positioning Ideally suited to markets with high volumes of data processing and computing demands • Government labs • Biosciences • Scientific research & development • Energy, weather, climate • Oil and Gas • Media and entertainment • Geospatial companies LSI Confidential 7

Key Features • 7 th-generation XBB 2 architecture delivers unprecedented performance, multi-dimensional scalability and unparalleled flexibility • Balanced performance supports mixed workloads for applications ranging from transaction-heavy to bandwidth-intensive • Fully redundant I/O paths, automated failover, battery-backed mirrored cache, and online administration keep your data accessible • Field-replaceable host interface cards adapt to changing infrastructures • Support for SATA drives and RAID level 6 allows administrators lower costs without sacrificing data protection • Proven architecture benefits from more than 30 years of design knowledge and firmware development LSI Confidential 8

Specification Overview 7900 HPC Key new features Host/SAN connectivity • 7 th generation XBB 2 controller technology • Sixteen 4 Gb/s FC – Custom ASIC with built-in hardware-assist for RAID 5 XOR and RAID 6 p+q – Four 2 GB/s PCI-Express X 8 buses (two host, two drive) deliver 4 GB/s of internal bandwidth – Two dedicated 2 GB/s PCI-E X 8 cache mirroring buses – Field replaceable host interface cards • Dedicated data cache – Dedicated cache mirroring busses – Battery-backed and destaged to disk after power loss • Eight 20 Gb/s IB Drive channels / drives • Sixteen 4 Gb/s FC • 480 – FC/SATA (256 initially) XOR and Cache • Dedicated XOR engine • 8 GB dedicated cache • Battery-backed, mirrored Performance • 6. 4 GB/s sequential disk reads • 5. 4 GB/s sequential disk writes Dual-controller system specs LSI Confidential 9

Field Replaceable Host Interface Cards LSI Confidential 10

6998 / 7900 HPC Specification Comparison Dual-controller system (unless noted) 6998 7900 HPC Improvement Host channels 8 FC 16 FC or 8 IB 2 X Redundant drive channels Eight 4 Gb/s Sixteen 4 Gb/s 2 X Max drives 224 FC/SATA 480 FC/SATA 2 X Processor Intel Xeon 2. 4 GHz Intel Xeon 2. 8 GHz --- Processor memory (single controller) Up to 1 GB 2 X XOR technology Dedicated ASIC Dedicated ZIP ASIC --- Bus Technology PCI-X PCI-Express 2 X Internal controller bandwidth (single controller) 1 GB/s 4 X Data cache (min/max) 2 GB / 16 GB 8 GB --- Cache Hold-up Battery backed Permanent 2 X Cache Mirroring Back-end loops 2 dedicated busses --- Cache bandwidth (single controller) 3. 2 GB/s 17 GB/s 5 X LSI Confidential 11

6998 / 7900 HPC Performance Comparison 6998 7900 HPC Improvement Burst throughput cache read 1, 700 MB/s 6, 400 MB/s 3. 8 X Sustained throughput disk read 1, 600 MB/s 6, 400 MB/s 4 X Sustained throughput disk write (CMD) 1, 300 MB/s 5, 400 MB/s 4 X Burst I/O rate cache reads 575, 000 IOPS 700, 000 IOPS 1. 6 X Sustained I/O rate disk reads 86, 000 IOPS ~ 172, 000 IOPS (est) 2 X Sustained I/O rate disk writes 22, 000 IOPs ~ 45, 000 IOPS (est) 2 X ~ Performance numbers are preliminary estimates based on 448 drives and not committed. Actual results based on testing are to be determined. All numbers were done using RAID 5 using switched drive modules. LSI Confidential 12

Questions

7999 Controller Block Diagram LSI Confidential 14