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Building Scalable Flash Storage with Pure EXA

Ethan Miller · CERN

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High-performance storage for scientific computing now demands exabytes of data readable and writeable at terabytes per second. Flash storage is poised to replace disk, since it is faster, more energy-efficient, and more space-efficient than an equivalent amount of disk. This talk will describe Pure Storage's //EXA architecture, which provides exabyte-scale flash-based storage for HPC and AI using a high-performance metadata server and a large number of data nodes. The talk will show how a flash-based design can reduce rack space and energy consumption by an order of magnitude over disk-based systems while providing comparable bandwidth and better reliability.

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  1. Building Scalable Flash Storage with Pure EXA 2026-03-05 · 32 min · CERN's player

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CERN
Speaker
Ethan Miller
Year
2026
Language
English
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