Partnership provides a choice for enterprise users who seek quick deployment of clusters with superior application performance.

Panasas, Inc., a provider of parallel storage solutions, and Penguin Computing, a provider of Linux cluster solutions, today announced their plans to bring to market a comprehensive compute and storage solution that will deliver productivity and ease of use to the fastest growing segments of the technical computing market. The company states that the solution tightly integrates its ActiveStor parallel storage with Penguin's Scyld ClusterWare Linux clustering software and Penguin server platforms. The result is a powerful compute and storage solution designed to yield the fastest time to results with the greatest ease of use available on the market today, providing organizations of all sizes and expertise levels increased productivity and lower total cost of ownership.

The company explains that the ActiveStor parallel storage solution accelerates the performance of data-intensive applications by providing better random access for small files and maximum I/O throughput for large sequential files. This is achieved with the object-based PanFS parallel file system that is the foundation of the pNFS (parallel NFS) standard, which will be released later this year as NFS version 4.1. It adds that the storage system's appliance-like expansion capability, ease of installation and single global namespace attributes increase user and IT administrative productivity, maximizing ROI from clustered computing environments.

"Our partnership with Penguin Computing provides an attractive choice for enterprise users seeking quick deployment of clusters with superior application performance," said Victor Perez, CEO at Panasas. "Penguin's advanced servers and easy-to-use Scyld ClusterWare compute infrastructure software are a natural complement to Panasas parallel storage which together contribute to customers' competitive advantage with improved manageability, increased IT efficiency and heightened end-user productivity."

"Penguin Computing's Scyld ClusterWare is industry-proven cluster management software that today is accelerating the pace of product development at Fortune 500 firms," said Matt Jacobs, vice president of HPC at Penguin Computing. "Complexities in clustered environments are very real inhibitors to productivity. It is our sole focus at Penguin to liberate our customers from those complexities and enable them to focus on the research and development goals at hand. The marriage of Panasas parallel storage with the Penguin offering ensures that benefit for our customers and is a natural extension of the ease of use and performance features of both solutions."