DDN · DataDirect Networks
A storage vendor whose Lustre-based appliances are a standard certified hot tier in GPU-vendor reference architectures.
Current numbers
800 Gb/sBlueField-4 DPU throughput (STX storage architecture), ~6x BlueField-3 compute; WEKA/VAST/DDN platforms
~2.75M vs ~520kmetadata IOPS: Weka vs a comparable DDN/Lustre config in IO500 measurement — the LOSF gap behind the same bandwidth