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Emulex and AMAX Demonstrate Hadoop Data Cluster
Configuration at Supercomputing
Joint Solution Showcases the Benefits of 10Gb Ethernet to Hadoop Performance
SUPERCOMPUTING, SEATTLE, and COSTA MESA, Calif., November 15, 2011 - Emulex Corporation (NYSE:ELX) today announced that it is demonstrating a Hadoop data cluster configuration at Supercomputing with AMAX, a leader in high-performance computing (HPC) solutions. Emulex and AMAX collaborated on a highly scalable, balanced Hadoop cluster configuration delivering the performance needed to address the 'Big Data' needs of enterprises. The AMAX/Emulex Peta-Scale Hadoop Analytics Technology (PHAT-Data) solution will showcase how 10Gb Ethernet (10GbE) improves Hadoop performance and scalability, opening up new possibilities for Hadoop in traditional and hybrid data centers.
"Given the digital universe will skyrocket to 1.8 zettabytes (ZB) to 7ZB by 2013, with 90% of that coming from digital content1, Hadoop is emerging as a scalable way to drive how massive data pools are managed, searched and deployed," said Shaun Walsh, vice president of marketing, Emulex. "This new joint solution addresses enterprises' immediate need to store massive amounts of data, while helping them prepare for the next wave of cloud deployments in the data center."
The Hadoop data cluster configuration leverages the AMAX ServMax SX-2208 storage server and Emulex OneConnect OCe11102-N Dual-Port 10GbE Network Interface Cards (NICs). The demonstration will showcase balanced CPU, network and disk I/O performance within different environments, which improves the efficiency of every server in the cluster, thus improving the performance of the entire Hadoop infrastructure. The demonstration will also show how the AMAX/Emulex PHAT-Data solution allows Hadoop performance to be significantly increased by tuning parameters based on the cluster specifications, input data size and processing complexities.
The AMAX/Emulex PHAT-Data solution provides end users with a highly scalable, fault-tolerant distributed system for data storage which is necessary to support the data growth explosion being seen today. This highly scalable solution is made possible with a self-healing, high bandwidth clustered storage composed of Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS) and MapReduce, a fault-tolerant distributed processing framework. MapReduce's programming model harnesses the computing power of several commodity servers into a single high-performance computing cluster capable of efficiently analyzing large data sets.
The AMAX/Emulex Hadoop data cluster solution runs on a collection of commodity servers and is an ideal platform for consolidating large-scale data from a variety of new and legacy sources. It complements existing data management solutions with new analytical and processing tools and is relevant for vertical markets such as social media and digital/web services, health and life sciences, financial services, government and research, and telecommunications. Scientific applications can also take advantage of Hadoop and it transparent data replication, data locality aware scheduling and fault tolerance capabilities used in video and image analysis, log processing and data warehousing.
"When we set out to design the AMAX PHAT-Data Hadoop solution, our goal was to build a high-performance, future-proof, turnkey cluster with balanced CPU, disk I/O, and network performance," said Jean Shih, president, AMAX. "Emulex is a recognized leader with many wins in the performance networking space, and the performance of their 10GbE technology improves the efficiency of every server in the PHAT-Data Hadoop cluster."
This demonstration will be held in AMAX booth #915 and highlighted in Emulex booth #5205 at Supercomputing, in Seattle this week, November 14 - 18, 2011.
¹IDC: IDC Predictions 2011: Welcome to the new Mainstream (December 2010)
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About Emulex
Emulex, the leader in converged networking solutions, provides enterprise-class connectivity for servers, networks and storage devices within the data center. The Company's product portfolio of Fibre Channel host bus adapters, network interface cards, converged network adapters, controllers, embedded bridges and switches, and connectivity management software are proven, tested and trusted by the world's largest and most demanding IT environments. Emulex solutions are used and offered by the industry's leading server and storage OEMs including, Cisco, Dell, EMC, Fujitsu, Hitachi, Hitachi Data Systems, HP, Huawei, IBM, NEC, NetApp and Oracle. Emulex is headquartered in Costa Mesa, Calif., and has offices and research facilities in North America, Asia and Europe. More information about Emulex (NYSE:ELX) is available at www.Emulex.com.
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