Brian gets Curtis Anderson of Panasas to join him for a deep and detailed view of HPC. Curtis is the Software Architect at Panasas and co-chair of the MLCommons Storage Working Group. What is MLCommons Storage Working Group? MLCommons is an industry consortium working to accelerate machine learning and increase its positive impact on society. It publishes several standards for the performance of AI/ML models, among other things. As one of the co-chairs, Curtis defines standard(s) for evaluating the performance of storage subsystems that feed AI/ML environments.

Brian gets Curtis Anderson of Panasas to join him for a deep and detailed view of HPC. Curtis is the Software Architect at Panasas and co-chair of the MLCommons Storage Working Group. What is MLCommons Storage Working Group? MLCommons is an industry consortium working to accelerate machine learning and increase its positive impact on society. It publishes several standards for the performance of AI/ML models, among other things. As one of the co-chairs, Curtis defines standard(s) for evaluating the performance of storage subsystems that feed AI/ML environments.

As a Software Architect at Panasas, Curtis coordinates all the technology teams in the Sunnyvale office: Platform, OSD (Object Storage Device), CLI/GUI Management, NFS and CIFS gateway, and interfacing to the hardware and QA teams. He also gets to write code again(!).

The market for scale-out storage with a commercial feature set is growing rapidly, and competitors like NetApp have the commercial feature set but haven’t been able to master scale-out. Panasas has 15 years of scale-out performance and the resiliency everyone wants but needs the commercial feature set that some commercial players have.

Brian digs deep into the technology and asks Curtis to explain use cases and the software structure, where Panasas fits in the overall market and their new flash systems.

This is a great podcast; if HPC is of interest, you should give this a listen. It’s only 45 minutes, but if you want to jump around, we have put some timestamps below:

00:00 Intro

05:00 How Panasas systems work

10:00 Software structure

15:00 How it handles multiple HPC projects

20:00 How M&E works

25:00 Costs

30:00 How to set up a smaller company for HPC

35:00 Edge Placement

40:00 Environmental impact

45:00 How to engage Panasas

Closing and wrap-up

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