Other companies talk in theoretical terms about creating a 15PB global name space for HPC. Huawei Symantec went out and did it, building the ThunderCloud NAS Cluster with 15PB global namespace (September, 2011), encompassing 40 cabinets, 7,680 HDDs, 1TB cache, and 22 controller chassis encompassing 100 square meters of floor space and drawing 208 KW of total power.

This ground-breaking installation comes on the heels of the 1.3PB Clustered NAS for HPC installation that shattered the SPECsfs2008 NFS benchmark with 636,036 ops per second—27% faster than the old record.

Huawei Symantec delivers record-breaking HPC performance and surprising value for those in the fields of academic research, biosciences, energy, manufacturing, finance, and government:

• Engineering analysis and design
• Computational mathematics
• Fluid dynamics
• Genomic databases
• Mass spectrometry
• Seismic processing, imaging, visualization and interpretation
• Reservoir simulation and modeling
• Risk and profitability projections
• Global climate change / meteorologist forecasting
• Defense and homeland security
• Product design / development and high-fidelity CAE / EDA simulations