Name: How to Leverage SMR HDDs for HPC and Service Provider Applications
Start: 2025-01-21T16:00:00Z
End: 2025-01-21T16:00:31.000Z
Location: BrightTALK
Rating: 4.5

For decades, Western Digital has shaped the future of data storage, powering everything from the rise of cloud computing to today’s AI-driven workloads. With groundbreaking advancements such as HelioSeal®, OptiNAND™, and SMR technology, our storage leadership has made us the trusted partner for enterprises seeking to turn data into long-term value.

HPC workloads demand more than just speed - they require scalable, resilient infrastructure that eliminates bottlenecks and delivers consistent high throughput. In this webinar, we'll share how Western Digital and BeeGFS enable a powerful, highly available parallel file system solution designed for HPC environments.  

This session introduces a validated, scalable solution built on Western Digital’s OpenFlex Data24 4000 Series, combining NVMe-over-Fabrics, BeeGFS parallel file systems, and Xinnor xiRAID software RAID. We will discuss how this integrated approach delivers high throughput and simplified management - empowering organizations to meet modern data demands. 

What You’ll Learn: 

-Insights from a validated architecture showcasing High Availability and exceptional performance
-Real-world use cases and deployment strategies  
-Best practices for building resilient, high-throughput storage clusters 

Speakers:
Calvin Falldorf- Technologist, Applications Engineering, Western Digital
Ingo Martini - Presales Consultant, ThinkParQ/BeeGFS
Davide Villa - Chief Revenue Officer, Xinnor

Unlocking Scalable Performance for HPC and AI

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Invitation au webinaire : 10e anniversaire de WD Purple

Od ponad dziesięciu lat WD Purple® jest zaufaną marką w dziedzinie pamięci masowych do systemów monitoringu.
Zapraszamy do udziału w specjalnym webinarium, aby wspólnie świętować
ponad 10 lat od powstania WD Purple®.

Zaproszenie na webinarium: ponad 10 lat dysków Purple – sprawdzonych i dedykowanych do monitoringu

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Your Private Google: AI Document Search with QNAP Qsirch

For ten years, WD Purple® has been the trusted name in surveillance storage. 
Join us for a special webinar to celebrate together the 10th anniversary of WD Purple®.  
We have prepared a special presentation for you, including a thank you message from our VP.

WD Purple 10th Anniversary

Join us for our December TechTalk session where we will introduce the new SN655 and SN861 High capacity and gen5 SSDs, and the new  E3.S, E1.S form factors.

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This session will cover the full spectrum of data protection, from safeguarding your servers to ensuring that your backup applications are both reliable and secure. Our experts will provide actionable insights on best practices, demonstrate key features, and showcase real-world scenarios where QNAP solutions have successfully mitigated risks.
 
Whether you're an IT professional, system administrator, or business leader, this webinar will equip you with the knowledge and tools necessary to enhance your organization’s data protection strategy.

Mastering Data Protection: End-to-End Security from Servers to Backup Applications

Get the scoop on our collaboration with Storage Review to architect NVMe-oF™ with Nvidia GPUDirect® infrastructure to keep 2 Nvidia® H100 GPUs running continuously at full processing capability for a tornado simulation.

Designing a High Performance NVMe-oF, Nvidia GPUDirect Infrastructure

In this 9 minute video you will hear why disaggregated NVMe storage is a strategic architecture, how it can be deployed, and what are the key features of the latest OpenFlex Data24 disaggregated NVMe storage platform from Western Digital.

Western Digital's latest NVMe-oF platform offering: OpenFlex Data24 4000

In this 30 minute session you will learn how Xinnor xiRAID software can provide very high level of protection while significantly improving the data load time on Western Digital's Ultrastar Transporter portable and edge storage platform. 

The combined solution addresses the requirements of the users in need of moving vast amount of data from one location to another and the ones who need to collect data in remote locations. In the session, you’ll see the results of the benchmarks performed by the two companies, demonstrating how xiRAID can greatly improve data loading, while adding further drive redundancy.

Western Digital & Xinnor Deliver High-Performance, Protected, Portable Storage

Learn how advancements in AI and the demand for adding GPUs to servers are driving changes such as larger physical size and power supply capacity in AI-focused server architectures. One way to resolve these competing requirements is to disaggregate the storage into its own chassis.  Mark Miquelon, Platforms Product Manager at Western Digital and Rob Davis, VP of Storage Technology at NVIDIA demonstrate how this can be done without sacrificing any performance to the GPU infrastructure utilizing NVMe-oF technology.

FMS 2024 Keynote: Storage for AI Using GPUs

Mark and Pete show you key features of a powered-on Ultrastar Data102. How it mounts in the rack, how to access drives and other replaceable components for servicing, how Arctic Flow and IsoVibe work, and what you can access from the cool aisle and the hot aisle.

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Create a Self Hosted Secure File Sharing Cloud

Data Storage for AI - Capture the value of artificial intelligence with high-capacity, high-performance data storage across the
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The AI Data Cycle

Learn how Leil Storage’s distributed filesystem (SaunaFS) can be used to get the needed performance from Western Digital’s Host-Managed SMR drives that deliver lower $/TB when compared to traditional HDD’s.

Host-Managed SMR technology requires a software stack that is designed to write to these drives sequentially. SaunaFS provides a single namespace filesystem layer that can write data from Active Archive workloads to SMR drives.

In this webinar Western Digital and Leil Storage provide the details of this solution and how they leveraged Western Digital JBODs to optimize performance and reliability of the solution.

How to Leverage SMR HDDs for HPC and Service Provider Applications

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