Plextor announced a new line of solid state drives, the M3S. The M3S weighs in at 2.5” with a bracket to adapt to 3.5”, comes with a 5 year warranty, and comes in a variety of capacities: 128GB, 256GB, and 512GB. The new line also boasts sequential read/write speeds of up to 525MB/s read and

Cray Inc. has announced the Cray Sonexion 1300 system–an integrated file system, software and storage product giving customers a complete and scalable Lustre file system solution that is easy to install and maintain. The Cray Sonexion is designed specifically for a wide range of HPC workloads, features data rates of more than a terabyte-per-second, and

Intel has stated that it will deliver the most efficient and programming-friendly platform for highly parallel applications. At a private briefing at SC11, Intel discussed the benefits of the Intel Many Integrated Core (MIC) architecture in weather modeling, tomography, proteins folding and advanced materials simulation. The ahah moment occurred with they broke out a sample

Pogoplug, a San Francisco based personal-cloud storage start-up, has started offering 5GB of free cloud storage. The service is aimed at mobile users and supports iPhone and Android, plus some desktop platforms to use with their PogoPlug hardware. The service is what you would expect of any cloud storage, allowing users to stream media or

Fusion-io has announced the 10TB ioDrive Octal which means even certain 1U servers can accommodate up to 20TB of flash storage. The ioDrive Octal features eight 1.28TB MLC memory modules into a double-wide full-length PCIe card and delivers more than 1.3 million IOPS (512 B) with 6.7 GB/s bandwidth.

LSI Corporation (NYSE: LSI) has announced its latest models of high-performance, low-power preamplifier integrated circuits; the TrueStore® PA5100 and PA5200, specifically made for the notebook, desktop and enterprise HDD markets. The preamplifiers deliver speeds of up to 5.0Gb/s, which is a significant jump in performance compared to the previous generations; they also consume considerably less

LSI Corporation (NYSE:LSI) announced that it will be demonstrating the industry’s first 12Gb/s SAS expander IC this week at the LSI Accelerating Innovation Summit and Technology Showcase in Milpitas, Calif. In this demonstration, they will highlight the performance benefits of a 12Gb/s SAS solution with existing 6Gb/s drives compared to an end-to-end 6Gb/s SAS solution

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.

The Blue Waters project, deployed by the National Center for Supercomputing Applications, anticipates that its supercomputer will be one of the most powerful in the world, capable of a staggering 1 Petaflop (one quadrillion calculations per second) of sustained performance using eight scientific applications. With it, scientists will be able to discover things that haven’t