Storage comprises about 20% of the available budget in a typical HPC system, with another 20% being spent on software, 20% for services, and 40% on the compute cluster, according to marketing intelligence firm Intersect360 Research Firm (WW HPC Total Market Model). The majority of system design time and effort is spent validating the performance of the compute cluster, with less attention paid to storage. But not all storage is the same. All too frequently the investment and effort in building the best compute cluster will have yielded disappointing results when storage is not given...
