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this article plus other related content. Many organizations in
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deploy high-performance computing (HPC) systems to analyze data
at far speedier rates than is possible with traditional
computing systems. Jobs that routinely take thousands of CPU
hours to complete on traditional computing systems can be done
within a matter of hours on HPC systems. These HPC systems
require access to the storage system simultaneously and, for
this purpose, scale out storage systems best fit the bill. One
such example is EMC Isilon Storage Systems that run on OneFS—a
single file system that spans the cluster of storage
nodes—enabling the data to be read simultaneously by HPC systems
from the cluster nodes. The volume of data generated and
analyzed ranges from terabytes to petabytes