# Building Scalable Flash Storage with Pure EXA

- Institution: CERN
- Speaker: Ethan Miller
- Year: 2026
- Language: English
- Source: [CERN](https://videos.cern.ch/record/3021031)
- Licence: [CERN](https://copyright.web.cern)
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

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.

0:00:00 Slide 1

0:00:03 Slide 2

0:00:25 Slide 3

0:01:12 Slide 4

0:03:03 Slide 5

0:04:27 Slide 6

0:07:58 Slide 7

0:10:57 Slide 8

0:12:35 Slide 9

0:16:47 Slide 10

0:20:51 Slide 11

0:22:34 Slide 12

0:27:04 Slide 13

0:29:17 Slide 14

0:31:11 Slide 15br>

## Lectures

1. [Building Scalable Flash Storage with Pure EXA](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/cern/3021031/ff3ee2ffeab2), 32 min (CERN's player)