Infortrend has announced EonStor GS 5024U, a U.2 NVMe SSD-based unified storage system that it says is its highest-performing storage platform to date. The company positions the system for AI workloads including model training, inference, and real-time analytics, where high throughput and low-latency access can become a bottleneck.
Infortrend says GS 5024U is powered by an Intel Xeon 6 processor and delivers up to 125 GB/s throughput and 2.4 million IOPS. The company reports this is 2.5 times higher throughput than its previous highest-performing model. The platform adds PCI Express 5.0 solid-state drive support and integrates 200 Gb Ethernet and Non-Volatile Memory Express over Fabrics (NVMe-oF) networking to target ultra-fast data transfers.
For GPU-centric pipelines, Infortrend says GS 5024U supports GPUDirect Storage to help maximize GPU utilization. The system also supports parallel file systems including Lustre, which Infortrend says can enable hundreds of gigabytes of throughput for AI workloads.
On availability and resilience, Infortrend says GS 5024U includes dual redundant controllers to keep operations running during intensive AI and high-performance computing (HPC) workloads. For capacity and expansion, the company states the system scales to 1.4 PB in the base configuration and up to 5.6 PB via NVMe SSD expansion or up to 20 PB via hard disk drive expansion.
Infortrend also says the platform includes automated storage tiering to keep active files and AI models on GS 5024U while migrating completed projects to U.2 quad-level cell (QLC) SSD or HDD tiers.
Source: Infortrend
