Fusion-io Breaks Graph Size Record Using ioDrive Duos [Supercomputing 2011]

Fusion-io (NYSE: FIO) announced that the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory broke its previous graph size record, set in the June Graph500 competition, with a single node server which houses 12 TB of Fusion-io memory tech. The system is called “Leviathan,” and for good reason; it’s a beast, featuring nine ioDrive Duos and one ioDrive.

Fusion-io (NYSE: FIO) announced that the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory broke its previous graph size record, set in the June Graph500 competition, with a single node server which houses 12 TB of Fusion-io memory tech. The system is called “Leviathan,” and for good reason; it’s a beast, featuring nine ioDrive Duos and one ioDrive.

Leviathan is based on a 4 socket 40-core Xeon processor, and storage is handled by nine Fusion ioDrive Duos and 1 ioDrive, and managed to process a scale 36 graph, 4 times larger than the previous record. The metric reported is 52.796 million TEPS (traversed edges per second).
The system itself is somewhat unusual, as most machines that are able to do this kind of work fall into the supercomputer category, but the benefits of SSDs seem to be very apparent in this application. LLNL even reproduced the scale 36 results with a second test with 64 computer nodes, each with 2

Fusion-io ioDrive Duos on the Hyperion Data Intensive Testbed. This separate node setup achieved an even higher TEPS rate than the single node setup. Fusion-io memory is used in several machines at Supercomputer 2011 in Seattle, CA. From November 14 through the 17 visitors will be able to catch a glimpse of this Fusion-io’s products at work.

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