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Hammerspace has announced the addition of high-performance erasure coding to its Global Data Environment software. Hammerspace unifies data stored on any vendor’s existing NAS, object or cloud storage and today’s announcement further expands the broad range of storage options that Hammerspace supports.
David Flynn, Hammerspace Founder and CEO, said, “We started this year by adding support for data on tape, then pioneered the Hyperscale NAS architecture for AI and GPU computing, and now we are further expanding our data storage services with high-performance erasure coding. This gives customers even more choice and flexibility when it comes to their storage infrastructure.”
Hammerspace erasure coding groups (EC-Groups), built on the Mojette Transform erasure code, is resilient, efficient, and highly performant – up to 2x faster than traditional erasure coding schemes – and extends the suite of enterprise data services offered by Hammerspace.
According to the company, this gives customers a new option for building high-performance storage using Hammerspace technology on commodity hardware. For example when building scratch space for HPC and research environments, using OCP hardware in hyperscale environments, or for building out a new, all-flash storage environment for AI initiatives to augment or replace legacy storage.
Hammerspace has implemented the Mojette Transform erasure code as a data storage service within the Global Data Environment. Mojette Transform is an extremely CPU-efficient erasure code which avoids the complex mathematical calculations of usual erasure codes, leaving more compute power available to applications.
The Mojette Transform erasure code is optimal for the high-performance Hammerspace provides, not only in large file throughput but also in delivering the extreme levels of write IOPS by avoiding the “read-modify-write” needed by other erasure codes, which causes them to struggle with IOPS performance.
