Press release:

Seagate Technology plc (NASDAQ: STX) today introduced the ClusterStor® 300N storage system with Nytro® Intelligent I/O Manager, the newest addition to its family of scale-out storage systems for high-performance computing (HPC) and the first with a flash cache accelerator.

Powered by the software-based Nytro Intelligent I/O Manager, the ClusterStor 300N seamlessly runs multiple mixed workloads simultaneously on the same storage platform, eliminating performance bottlenecks that can result when data demands outpace what the existing storage architecture can accommodate. As a result, organizations can use it to automatically support multiple applications that generate a diverse range of I/O workloads on the same storage platform without negatively impacting performance. It’s particularly suitable for the kinds of mixed and unpredictable workloads found in many of today’s most demanding, data-intensive HPC applications like seismic processing, financial transition modeling, machine learning, geospatial intelligence and fluid dynamics.

Ideal for organizations seeking both peak performance and cost efficiency when managing large data sets at scale with unpredictable workloads, the ClusterStor 300N represents the convergence of Seagate’s market leading enterprise class hard drives, innovative solid state designs and the industry’s most sophisticated system software within a platform purpose built to help organizations manage and move massive amounts of critical data while maintaining workload efficiency and minimizing the cost per terabyte. The Nytro Intelligent I/O Manager software delivers up to 1,000 percent input/output workload acceleration over traditional HPC storage systems and can quickly scale to accommodate any workload at any time.

“Maximizing value of data in the kinds of extraordinary environments represented by supercomputing is all about being able to handle extreme, unpredictable storage bandwidth and capacity needs at scale,” said Ken Claffey, vice president and general manager, Seagate HPC systems business. “Seagate’s ClusterStor 300N expands on our proven, engineered systems approach that delivers performance efficiency and value for HPC environments of any size, using a hybrid technology architecture to handle tough workloads at a fraction of the cost of all-flash approaches.”

The ClusterStor 300N is architected specifically as a common platform for both the ClusterStor, Lustre® and IBM Spectrum Scale™ storage systems as the L300N and G300N, respectively.

“With a long track record of mission-critical HPC deployments and support, Atos Extreme Computing is excited to extend its support to Seagate’s new range of Nytro Intelligent I/O Manager -based ClusterStor appliances,” said Eric Eppe, head of products and solutions, Extreme Computing, Atos. “We believe Seagate’s 300N appliance will help our HPC customers solve their most data intensive workloads and data hierarchy issues in a comprehensive, yet more efficient way.”

“The 300N offers the density, extreme bandwidth, low latency and simplified manageability that our customers demand in their HPC storage environments today,” said Mike Vildibill, vice president, HPC Storage, Hewlett Packard Enterprise. “New storage innovations like the ClusterStor 300N are critical for answering these demands and maintaining a high level of performance across a wide range of workloads.”

The 300N will be widely available in January 2017. Learn more at Seagate’s booth #1209 at the Supercomputing 2016 conference in Salt Lake City, Utah, Nov. 14-17. Other Seagate technology demonstrations at the event will include the highest density 720 terabyte, two-rack unit (RU) Lustre storage system technology configuration, making it possible to build the world's first 15 petabyte, 42RU system, as well as a single NVMe over a Fabric, 24-drive all flash array shared storage system delivering 4.8 million IOPS with single-digit microsecond latency.

The ClusterStor family architecture is built on Seagate’s field-proven, enterprise-class hard drives and high-performance parallel file systems such as Lustre and IBM Spectrum Scale. Combining superior performance with ultra-efficient scalability, the ClusterStor family includes the new ClusterStor L300N and G300N, as well as the ClusterStor A200 Active Archive, ClusterStor L300, ClusterStor G200, ClusterStor 9000, ClusterStor 1500, ClusterStor Secure Data Appliance and Hadoop Workflow Accelerator for ClusterStor’s architecture.

The Navy being accused of piracy?
Oh, the irony!
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and really bad eggs

@scottalanmiller said in Is KDE Neon the Ultimate Linux Desktop:

@gjacobse said in Is KDE Neon the Ultimate Linux Desktop:

Mint or Neon could be going on the new laptop... when I decide on which one.

Neon is a version of KDE, not a desktop. Mint is a distro.

Am I that confusing this afternoon? Probably good I'm not answering questions at the moment.

@DustinB3403 said in Massive AdultFriendFinder Data Breach Alert - This is a phishing nightmare...:

Nothing like trusting those dating sites to secure your information...

I think that if you trust them to secure it, you are thinking about dating sites incorrectly 🙂 Plus most of that data is public for anyone that makes an account. So while username and password stuff is breached just like any site, dating sites really would not normally have anything private in their systems.

So if it doesn't provide privilege escalation and only allows you to access processes which you are running, then how is it really any different from any normal hooking? So yes, it's unpatchable in the same way deleting all the files in your own home directory in Unix is unpatchable.

Looking at the code as well... we were doing this stuff years ago to see what was being sent wrapped in SSL for reverse engineering purposes, because tcpdump or whatever couldn't read it.

@Minion-Queen said in Rackspace Went Private:

You are all good. :). Others may have also missed it.

Or forgot.....

@JaredBusch said in Windstream and Earthlink to merge:

@David.Scammell said in Windstream and Earthlink to merge:

@scottalanmiller said in Windstream and Earthlink to merge:

@RojoLoco said in Windstream and Earthlink to merge:
So will the resulting company be called Windlink or Earthstream?

I think it is clear that their next acquisition will be Firehost.

And finally, after they merge with NanoH2O, they will hire Captain Planet as their new CEO. 😉

Youtube Video

Brought back memories...I had to listen to the entire song.

A good move, I think.

@David.Scammell said in Microsoft Admit Failure On Mobile Phones:

Just hit me what you were saying, and yes, this was "working as designed," Microsoft was the magician pulling a slight of hand, and it appears you're saying they should have designed it better. Got it! 🙂

I didn't suggest that they should have designed it better. But Microsoft wasn't the magician here, really, it was Intel doing the hard work. Other operating systems were 64GB on 32bit across the board, like Linux. My desktops could do 64GB before Windows Server could. The per process limit of 2GB is for performance reasons, going above that would cause performance problems, so it is by design to have that limit to keep things fast. And how often do you need more than 2GB for a single process in the 32bit era? Not often. Even today it is super rare. But Linux did not have that limit, Linux had 4GB per process limit, but this was removed because it was useless.

So yes, in some ways, Microsoft failed to keep up with their competitors in this space. But Linux proved that large per-process limits weren't useful.

@travisdh1 said in NitroShare for Simple Cross Platform File Sharing:

nitroshare: for those that don't know how to ssh?

It's cross platform, too. So lots of Windows users don't know how to SSH.

@dafyre said in Actual Malicious LinkedIn Emails:

@ChrisL said in Actual Malicious LinkedIn Emails:

@dafyre said in Actual Malicious LinkedIn Emails:

@ChrisL said in Actual Malicious LinkedIn Emails:

I would always hope that someone isn't naive enough to think that a major financial institution with their contact info on hand would reach out to them through LinkedIn.

Buuuuuut, I've been wrong before.

Nah... Why would they do that, when they could impersonate a family friend and try to tell me that I won 150k from a non-existent government agency.

Congratulations!

Can I give them your bank account numbers? We can split the winnings.

I was afraid you'd never ask.

@scottalanmiller said in Five Reasons Why Rolling Distros Are Better:

@dafyre said in Five Reasons Why Rolling Distros Are Better:

I've had OpenSuse Tumbleweed actually bork my laptop so I had to wipe & reload it... That's my only reserve about rolling distros.

Was it the rolling that did it?

Sadly, yes. One of the updated packages broke my video drivers (Nvidia Optimus / Bumblebee drivers) and they would recompile to fix it... The Last straw for me was the next update I ran a week or so later updated the Kernel and caused the video to flash incessantly unless I had an app on the screen that was using the NVIDIA GPU. It was odd...

I wiped and did a Mint 18 install after that, lol.

Edit: I do know the flashing video bug has been fixed.

@scottalanmiller said in Android Banking Malware:

Active users of mobile banking apps should be aware of a new Android banking malware campaign targeting customers of large banks in the United States, Germany, France, Australia, Turkey, Poland, and Austria. This banking malware can steal login credentials from 94 different mobile banking apps. Due to its ability to intercept SMS communications, the malware is also able to bypass SMS-based two-factor authentication. Additionally, it also contains modules to target some popular social media apps.

Defeats two factor authentication!!

Honestly, any vendor using Flash is just asking for this.

SMS has never been a secure factor. Easy to intercept on wireless networks, even more on smartphones where an malicious app has access to the GSM modem or messaging API.

@scottalanmiller said in Installing Linux Malware Detect and ClamAV on CentOS 7:

@travisdh1 said in Installing Linux Malware Detect and ClamAV on CentOS 7:

Any reason to use LMD instead of or in addition to rkhunter?

Doesn't rkhunter focus only on root kits?

Mostly, but this was the first time I remember hearing about LMD.