DDN · DataDirect Networks
A storage vendor whose Lustre-based appliances are a standard certified hot tier in GPU-vendor reference architectures.
Current numbers
~2.75M vs ~1.6M vs ~0.94MIO500 metadata score (ISC26 production list): WEKA vs best Lustre vs best DDN EXAScaler entry, not a normalized comparison
800 Gb/sBlueField-4 DPU throughput (STX storage architecture), ~6x BlueField-3 compute; WEKA/VAST/DDN platforms