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Panasas

Products
- ActiveStor Solution
  We’ve architected the Panasas^® ActiveStor^® solution for simplicity and limitless performance. We’ve innovated our solution, based on 20 years of file system experience, to take advantage of the latest advances, including porting to Linux, offering a wider range of networking speed options, and leveraging the latest industry-standard hardware technologies. Explore Products
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- Overview
- ActiveStor Ultra
  - ActiveStor Ultra
    The industry’s leading price/performance in an appliance that maximizes simplicity, boosts reliability, and delivers the lowest TCO. Explore ActiveStor Ultra
- ActiveStor Prime
  - ActiveStor Prime
    High-performance hybrid scale-out NAS with integrated networking, flexible flash, and disk options which allow for smaller deployments that linearly scale as you grow. Explore ActiveStor Prime
- ActiveStor InfiniBand Router
  - ActiveStor InfiniBand Router
    Providing seamless connectivity between InfiniBand-based computer clusters and Ethernet-based ActiveStor storage solutions. Explore ActiveStor InfiniBand Router
Architecture
- PanFS Architecture
  The modular Panasas^® architecture with Dynamic Data Acceleration eliminates the complexity and manual intervention of tiered HPC storage, maximizing the performance of diverse storage media in a single, seamless storage system. PanFS optimizes performance across a wide variety of use-cases and mixed workloads, delivering the best total price-performance for your HPC and AI workflows. Explore Architecture
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- Overview
- PanFS
  - PanFS
    Panasas^® PanFS^® is the fastest, most efficient distributed parallel file system at any price point. Built on the Linux OS, PanFS runs on commodity hardware. Explore PanFS
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- ActiveStor Director
  - ActiveStor Director
    ActiveStor Director intelligently processes metadata to orchestrate file system activity, applies legacy protocol gateways, and “realm” (storage cluster) management. Explore ActiveStor Director
- ActiveStor Storage
  - ActiveStor Storage
    ActiveStor Storage nodes are dedicated to data and metadata storage for clients and Director Nodes. Storage node actions are under precise coordination by Director Nodes. Explore ActiveStor Storage
- Client Software
  - Client Software
    Easy to install software that implements the DirectFlow protocol, enabling superior performance and full POSIX behavior. Explore Client Software
- Exceptional Performance
  - Exceptional Performance
    ActiveStor delivers scale-out storage that transfers data between Storage Nodes and clients directly and in parallel. Explore Exceptional Performance
- Data Protection
  - Data Protection
    ActiveStor’s multiple layers of advanced protection – like Erasure-Coded Data Protection, snapshots, and replication – provide confidence that grows with scale. Explore Data Protection
- Linear Scalability
  - Linear Scalability
    PanFS^® on ActiveStor^® Ultra is designed to support linear growth, providing scalable performance, streamlined manageability, and unparalleled reliability. Explore Linear Scalability
- Centralized Management
  - Centralized Management
    Panasas gives administrators complete realm management capabilities through an intuitive web-based GUI. Explore Centralized Management
- Security
  - Security
    Safeguarding customer data through an extensive and efficient multi-layered security approach with zero performance impact is a pillar of the Panasas PanFS architecture. Explore Security
Industries
- Unique High-Performance Storage for Industries
  Panasas^® PanFS^® on ActiveStor^® Ultra is optimized for demanding storage environments. No matter what industry you’re in, the solution delivers leading price/performance in an appliance that maximizes simplicity, boosts reliability, and delivers the lowest total cost of ownership. Explore Industries
- Overview
- Manufacturing
  - Overview
  - Computer Aided Engineering
    - Computer Aided Engineering
      Create highly accurate simulations and support complex design processes that meet the dynamic demands of your customers. The Panasas ActiveStor solution helps you accelerate product development while reducing time to market. Explore Computer Aided Engineering
  - Electronic Design Automation
    - Electronic Design Automation
      Support automated design and simulate conditions on today’s most advanced electronic products. The Panasas ActiveStor solution helps you run high-performance mixed workloads that support even the most complex electronics design and automation (EDA) processes. Explore Electronic Design Automation
- Life Sciences
  - Overview
  - Genomic Sequencing and Bioinformatics
    - Genomic Sequencing and Bioinformatics
      Panasas is unique in that it provides the performance and scalability that only a parallel file system can provide for genomic analysis — but with the simplicity, reliability and mission critical support associated with enterprise scale-out NAS. Explore Genomic Sequencing and Bioinformatics
  - Structural Biology
    - Structural Biology
      CryoEM applications are demanding on file systems. The ActiveStor solution enables the reliability and scalability required handle the complex workloads of applications like RELION and cisTEM. Explore Structural Biology
  - Computational Chemistry
    - Computational Chemistry
      Computing calculations for computational chemistry often take days, weeks, or even months. The ActiveStor solution is reliable enough to handle the long-term computing needs of researchers. Explore Computational Chemistry
- Financial Services
  - Overview
  - Modeling & Analytics
    - Modeling & Analytics
      The financial services industry creates significant value by developing risk management, algorithmic trading, compliance checks, pricing, and tax systems strategies through modeling and analytics. With an innovative scale-out parallel file system architecture, Panasas ActiveStor Ultra delivers extreme performance that automatically adapts to financial service workloads and enables comprehensive, optimal higher order modeling for increased accuracy and precision. Explore Modeling & Analytics
  - Backtesting
    - Backtesting
      Financial services strategies are tested against historical data to determine how well they perform through a process called backtesting. Primarily conducted using the Monte Carlo Method, these simulations often involve hundreds of thousands of iterations. By utilizing the PanFS parallel file system, application clients have simultaneous and incredibly fast direct parallel access to storage nodes. This eliminates traditional bottlenecks, easing the strain on the storage and enabling faster backtesting. Explore Backtesting
  - Risk Analysis
    - Risk Analysis
      One key area of focus in financial services is risk analysis and management. Accurate modeling, testing and analysis of risks are critical to executing successful financial strategies. In trading strategies, modeling can be complex thus improving risk analysis can benefit from comprehensive models and increased simulation testing. With Panasas ActiveStor Ultra alleviating storage bottlenecks, risk analysts can more accurately and readily estimate the risk impacts and potential losses. Explore Risk Analysis
- Energy
  - Overview
  - Seismic Processing
    - Seismic Processing
      Seismic analysis involves acquiring, generating, and recording massive data volumes. The ActiveStor solution processes huge data volumes so users can suppress noise, enhance signals, and better understand seismic events. Explore Seismic Processing
  - Reservoir Simulation
    - Reservoir Simulation
      Energy companies need to visualize reservoirs to analyze extraction or drilling alternatives. The ActiveStor solution supports process modeling and simulation for better forecasting. Explore Reservoir Simulation
  - Interpretation and Analysis
    - Interpretation and Analysis
      Analysis of seismic data generates models and predictions about subsurface properties and structures. Using the ActiveStor solution, analysts can make better use of data, improving their competitive advantage. Explore Interpretation and Analysis
  - Renewables
- University
  - Overview
  - Climate Modeling
    - Climate Modeling
      Leading academic research institutions choose the ActiveStor solution to create highly accurate climate and weather models using complex simulation and analysis of huge data volumes. Explore Climate Modeling
  - Materials Science
    - Materials Science
      By streamlining access to computer modeling techniques and accelerating complex analysis, the ActiveStor solution helps academic researchers develop new materials faster. Explore Materials Science
  - High-Energy Physics
    - High-Energy Physics
      With the ActiveStor solution, researchers can unlock the secrets of our physical world by using large-scale computer simulation technologies to process huge volumes of data. Explore High-Energy Physics
  - Computational Sciences
    - Computational Sciences
      The ActiveStor solution helps researchers access, manage, simulate, model, and analyze the massive data sets needed to solve complex science and engineering problems. Explore Computational Sciences
- Government
  - Overview
  - Climate Modeling
    - Climate Modeling
      Agencies that monitor, model, and analyze climate and weather changes rely on high performance storage solution to run simulations faster, even with growing data volumes. Explore Climate Modeling
  - Defense
    - Defense
      Leading defense organizations choose the ActiveStor solution to support highly accurate mission simulations and accelerate complex analysis for enhanced national security. Explore Defense
  - Intelligence
    - Intelligence
      To understand adversaries and risks, intelligence organizations count on the ActiveStor solution to support the collection, analysis, and storage of vast amounts of disparate information. Explore Intelligence
  - Financial Modeling
    - Financial Modeling
      Organizations select the ActiveStor solution to support fast, precise economic simulation, analysis, and modeling of the effects of interest rate changes, forecasts, and agricultural factors. Explore Financial Modeling
- Media & Entertainment
- AI/HPC Convergence
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  - Artificial Intelligence (Deep Learning)
  - Artificial Intelligence (Deep Learning)
    - Artificial Intelligence (Deep Learning)
      Most complex AI solutions make use of sophisticated neural networks that require and use the massive computing power of GPUs. This in turn demands more intelligence in the storage infrastructure that must support this never-ending need for increasing functionality and performance. Explore Artificial Intelligence (Deep Learning)
  - Machine Learning
    - Machine Learning
      When it comes to the statistical approaches to AI, accuracy and time-to-model matter, and the size of the data sets keeps growing. Training scales in a near-linear fashion which requires an optimized and linearly scalable storage infrastructure. Explore Machine Learning
Customers
Support
- Enterprise-Class Support, Services, and Training
  Panasas has a reputation for high reliability, thanks to the redundancy and resilience built into our products. However, even the highest-quality products and the best-architected systems eventually require support. That’s why Panasas offers support, professional services, and training that will help you maximize your investment and stay within budget. Explore Support
- Overview
- Support Plans
  - Support Plans
    Help IT groups resolve issues quickly so they can meet availability requirements and get the most value from your storage system. Explore Support Plans
- Professional Services
  - Professional Services
    Gain the expertise you need with a limited-term professional engagement to address specific storage challenges or technical requirements. Explore Professional Services
- Training Courses
  - Training Courses
    Panasas provides in-depth training to drive high levels of technical proficiency with Panasas ActiveStor parallel storage systems. Explore Training Courses
Company
- Company
  Panasas^® PanFS^® on ActiveStor^® Ultra supports industry and research innovation around the world, with the fastest plug-and-play parallel data storage system. Explore Company
- Overview
- Company
- Why Panasas
  - Overview
  - High Performance
    - High Performance
      PanFS^® on ActiveStor^® Ultra offers unlimited performance scaling in 4 GB/s building blocks, utilizing multi-tier intelligent data placement to maximize storage performance by placing metadata on low latency NVMe SSDs, small files on high IOPS SSDs, and large files on high-bandwidth HDDs. Explore High Performance
  - Low Cost to Own and Operate
    - Low Cost to Own and Operate
      The new generation of PanFS^® is integrated with state-of-the art COTS hardware to deliver the fastest parallel file system at any price point. Its frustration-free deployment, operation, and maintenance create a storage solution with the lowest total cost of ownership in its class. Explore Low Cost to Own and Operate
  - Surprising Simplicity
    - Surprising Simplicity
      PanFS^® on ActiveStor^® Ultra offers frustration-free deployment, operation, and maintenance. You can get from dock-to-data in less than a day, and the low-touch solution requires no deep technical skills for ongoing administration. A single IT administrator can support systems of any size. Explore Surprising Simplicity
  - Unparalleled Reliability
    - Unparalleled Reliability
      Fully automated online failure recovery delivers exceptional reliability. Explore Unparalleled Reliability
  - Extreme Flexibility
    - Extreme Flexibility
      The new generation of PanFS^® is a portable parallel filesystem ready to run on qualified commodity or OEM-certified storage hardware, allowing for rapid adoption of new hardware capabilities and an expanded portfolio of hardware options over time. Explore Extreme Flexibility
  - Timely, High-Quality Support
    - Timely, High-Quality Support
      At Panasas^®, we pride ourselves on providing exceptional customer service with a single-vendor problem resolution approach—ready to give you our undivided attention the moment you need it. Explore Timely, High-Quality Support
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Media Coverage

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Why Data Gravity Plays a Role in HPC

December 14, 2021

Lock Down High-Performance Computing Security Before It’s Too Late

November 4, 2021

Panasas file system PanFS optimized for HPC storage

September 27, 2021

Is There Any Space Left for Real Innovation in the Data Storage Industry?

September 14, 2021

The next bright idea

September 14, 2021 - Article

The next bright idea

September 14, 2021 - Magazine pg.22

When it comes to the data storage industry: is there any scope left for real innovation?

September 9, 2021

Is There Any Scope Left for Storage Industry Real Innovation?

August 31, 2021

When it comes to the data storage industry: is there any scope left for real innovation?

August 26, 2021

Panasas adds security and tweaks performance in PanFS 9

August 25, 2021

How The Data Deluge Is Turning High-Performance Computing Into Table Stakes

August 3, 2021

Stop the Lab Worship: Commercial HPC is Sexy, Too

March 23, 2021

Getting More Quantitative Analysis Modeling and Backtesting by Fixing Your Storage

March 2, 2021

Panasas Expands Senior Team With Addition of Tech Veterans Todd Ruff and Brian Reed

March 1, 2021

Panasas storage yearns for expanded enterprise presence

February 3, 2021

Trendspotting: What’s Coming For Bio-IT In 2021

January 7, 2021

UT Dallas Grows HPC Storage Footprint for Animation and Game Development

October 28, 2020

Panasas ActiveStor Data Storage Supports Materials Research for 4D Modeling Studies at MINES ParisTech University

October 9, 2020

Enabling Highly-Scalable Commercial HPC

October 6, 2020

This Week in Storage: Panasas replaces Spectrum Scale

September 1, 2020

High performance storage for University at Buffalo

August 27, 2020

University at Buffalo Selects Panasas for Academic Supercomputing Center

August 26, 2020

Panasas Picked for SUNY Supercomputing Center

August 25, 2020

University at Buffalo Selects Panasas High-Performance Storage to Support Research at its Leading Academic Supercomputing Center

August 25, 2020

Lowering the temperature of HPC storage tiering

August 24, 2020

I Really Don’t Care About TCO … It’s RCO I am Worried About

August 20, 2020

Panasas launches storage tiering by size instead of usage

August 18, 2020

Panasas PanFS With Dynamic Data Acceleration Technology to Support Diverse and Changing Workflows in HPC and AI

August 6, 2020

Panasas storage revs up parallelization for HPC workloads

August 6, 2020

Panasas auto-tunes filesystem storage for different IO patterns

August 5, 2020

Panasas Offering Takes on Tiered HPC Storage Headaches, Automatically Adapts to Workload Changes

August 5, 2020

Panasas Launches New PanFS With Dynamic Data Acceleration Technology

August 5, 2020

Panasas Launches New PanFS with Dynamic Data Acceleration Technology

August 5, 2020

Assessing the Link Between the Microbiome and COVID-19 Requires Multiple Partners

July 28, 2020

Calculating HPC storage TCO with Robert Murphy of Panasas

July 23, 2020

UC San Diego Center for Microbiome Innovation Breaks Data Bottlenecks

July 20, 2020

Boston Limited Releases Certified Panasas ActiveStor Ultra to its Customer Base

July 14, 2020

This week in storage with Actifio vs.Rubrik… and more

July 6, 2020

UCSD Center for Microbiome Innovation & Overcoming Data Storage Challenges to Advanced Discovery

July 3, 2020

UC San Diego Center for Microbiome Innovation increases storage capacity to meet demand for COVID research

July 2, 2020

What’s New in Computing vs. COVID-19: Fugaku, Congress, De Novo Design & More

July 2, 2020

UC San Diego Center for Microbiome Innovation Adds Two Petabytes of Panasas’ HPC Storage for COVID-19 Research

July 1, 2020

UC San Diego Center for Microbiome Innovation Adds Two Petabytes of Panasas’ HPC Storage for COVID-19 Research

June 30, 2020

UC San Diego Center for Microbiome Innovation Adds Two Petabytes of Panasas’ HPC Storage for COVID-19 Research

June 30, 2020

HPC-Storage als Grundlage für Innovationen

June 18, 2020

Hyperion-Studie: Wie man bei HPC versteckte Kosten entdeckt

June 11, 2020

The Hidden Costs of High-Performance Storage Ownership

May 18, 2020

New Study Details Importance of TCO for HPC Storage Buyers

May 8, 2020

Hyperion report highlights costs of HPC storage

May 7, 2020

Hidden Costs of HPC Storage – Hyperion Research/Panasas

May 7, 2020

Studie: Storage-Kosten drücken auf HPC-Ausfallsicherheit

May 7, 2020

New study exposes hidden costs of high-performance storage; downtime and labour costs are significant burdens that risk the mission

May 7, 2020

The Hidden Costs of High-Performance Storage

May 7, 2020

Unveiling the Hidden Costs of HPC Storage

May 6, 2020

Slidecast and Editorial: The Sad State of Affairs in HPC Storage (But there is light at the end of the tunnel)

May 6, 2020

New Study Exposes Hidden Costs of High-Performance Storage; Downtime and Labor Costs Are Significant Burdens That Risk the Mission

May 6, 2020

New Study Exposes Hidden Costs of HPC Storage including Downtime and Labor Costs

May 6, 2020

New Study Exposes Hidden Costs of High-Performance Storage

May 6, 2020

Accelerating HPC Applications with Panasas’ ASCA Intelligent Data Placement Architecture

March 23, 2020

Panasas assesses six new data storage technologies for HPC use case

March 18, 2020

Adding Ultra Low Latency to PanFS for AI and HPC

March 11, 2020

Solving the storage conundrum to accelerate life sciences

March 3, 2020

AI Is Driving Storage Down New Avenues

January 27, 2020

The State of HPC Storage – Requirements & Challenges

January 20, 2020

2020 Predictions From 50 Storage Vendors

January 10, 2020

Cloud Looms Large for Big Data in 2020

January 7, 2020

Storage Roundtable

December 10, 2019

Episode 9 – Panasas – Is HPC Storage Right for AI and ML?

December 4, 2019

Panasas HPC Storage Goes from Fast to Ludicrous Mode at SC19

December 2, 2019

Panasas pumps up PanFS speed

November 15, 2019

Comparing the Relative Performance of Different Parallel File Systems

October 27, 2019

Sea of Data

October 10, 2019

Visual Effects Studio Puts Panasas ActiveStor in the Movies

October 7, 2019

Deepening Storage Hierarchies Spark New Set of Challenges

October 6, 2019

High performance computing: Do you need it?

October 4, 2019

Panasas High-Performance Data Storage Supports Environmentally Responsible Energy Exploration

September 16, 2019

Keeping Pace With Rapid Storage Sophistication

September 13, 2019

Whiskytree experiences growth, upgrades tools

September 10, 2019

Optimizing Storage to Address Workflow Challenges in Biotech and Life Sciences Applications

September 9, 2019

High Performance Storage Sets Sail

September 9, 2019

Taking AI and HPC out of the Laboratory – Panasas show the power of automation and hardware abstraction to bring HPC and AI processing within the reach and capability of the Enterprise

August 30, 2019

Visual Effects and Content Creation Company Whiskytree Opts for Panasas ActiveStor

August 5, 2019

Change Management – CEO interview with Storage Magazine UK

August 1, 2019

Panasas: Hochleistungs-Speicher für riesige Datenmengen

July 8, 2019

Panasas: High performance storage for huge amounts of data

July 8, 2019

Open source vs. commercial parallel file systems: Truth and fiction in a HPC World

July 3, 2019

Storage in Life Sciences

July 2, 2019

HPCwire: Virtual Booth Tour at ISC 2019 – Frustration Free HPC Storage with ActiveStor Ultra

June 22, 2019

Video: Panasas Delivers Frustration Free HPC Storage at ISC 2019

June 20, 2019

In The Age of AI, Storage is no Longer an Afterthought

May 24, 2019

Storage Underpins Interplay Between HPC and AI

May 9, 2019

Live Interview at The Next AI Platform: Software Architect Curtis Anderson

May 9, 2019

Premium Elektroauto Hersteller NIO nutzt Panasas Storage für Design und Entwicklung

April 18, 2019

Panasas HPC Parallel File System Storage erhält neue Finanzierungsrunde

March 5, 2019

Panasas Secures Growth Investment, Jorge Titinger Joins Board

February 26, 2019

Panasas takes on board new investors in push for growth

February 26, 2019

Panasas upgrades to standard equipment for HPC storage

December 6, 2018

Virtual Roundtable: Storage

December 4, 2018

Re-Architecting Storage Around HPC’s Mixed Workloads Problem

November 29, 2018

UberCloud, The Wellcome Sanger Institute, Panasas, And More: News From November 2018

November 28, 2018

Panasas introduces plug-and-play portable parallel file system

November 26, 2018

More News From SC18; Updates from Atos, Mellanox, and Panasas

November 22, 2018

Panasas Introduces the Industry’s Only Plug-and-Play Portable Parallel File System

November 19, 2018

Panasas Unveils Next-Generation ActiveStor, PanFS

November 16, 2018

Panasas ActiveStor chases Lustre users with portable PanFS

November 14, 2018

Supercomputing 2018 News Bits

November 14, 2018

Panasas tells world+dog: We’ve broken free from chains of proprietary kit

November 14, 2018

Panasas debuts ActiveStor Ultra featuring PANFS 8, its plug-and-play portable parallel file system

November 14, 2018

Solid State Storage For High Performance Applications

November 14, 2018

New Panasas High Performance Storage Straddles Commercial-Traditional HPC

November 13, 2018

Panasas: ActiveStor Ultra Featuring PanFS 8

November 13, 2018

Panasas’ new ActiveStor Ultra targets emerging apps: AI, VR

November 13, 2018

Panasas refreshes with ActiveStor Ultra in push to the enterprise

November 13, 2018

The New Requirements of Mainstream HPC Storage

November 13, 2018

EV Maker Boosts Storage to Speed Simulations

October 11, 2018

Panasas storage roadmap includes route to software-defined

August 28, 2018

California Academy of Sciences

August 27, 2018

Visual Effects Studios: Selecting The Right Storage For Modern Media Workflows

July 30, 2018

Going Large –Interview with Panasas CEO Faye Pairman

Faye Pairman, CEO and President of Panasas, explains how an approach that combines high performance, reliability and manageability is helping the company go from strength to strength in an increasingly commoditised market.

June 11, 2018

Panasas Scale-out NAS – Part 4: Wie die Verwaltungsdienste eines ActiveStor-Systems den unterbrechungsfreien Betrieb sicherstellen

June 7, 2018

Panasas Scale-out NAS, Part 3: Die ausgeklügelte Software-Architektur des Panasas Dateisystems

May 25, 2018

The Storage Administrator Skills You Need to Keep Up Today

To meet changing enterprise IT needs, storage admins must acquire a new set of skills. If not, they risk being bogged down in an outmoded, outdated career rut.

May 24, 2018

Panasas Scale-out NAS, Part 2 – Die Hardware-Komponenten des Panasas NAS-Clusters

May 8, 2018

Panasas Scale-out NAS, Part 1 – Alle Speicherknoten arbeiten für alle Anwendungen

April 26, 2018

The Scoop: Biodata Comes “Ome” to Roost

April 15, 2018

Panasas demonstrates latest ActiveStor advancements

April 10, 2018

Enhancing Storage Capabilities for Modern Media Workflows

March 19, 2018

Panasas Donates 500 TB ActiveStore Solution to CMI Center for Microbiome Innovation

Today the UC San Diego Center for Microbiome Innovation (CMI) announced that Panasas has joined CMI’s Corporate Member Board and has donated a 500TB Panasas ActiveStor high-performance storage solution to support the acceleration of microbiome research. ActiveStor drives productivity and accelerates time to results with ultrafast streaming performance, true linear scalability, enterprise-grade reliability and unparalleled ease of management.

March 14, 2018

UC San Diego Center for Microbiome Innovation Announces Panasas as Corporate Member

The UC San Diego Center for Microbiome Innovation (CMI) announces that Panasas, a leading provider of performance scale-out network-attached storage, has joined CMI’s Corporate Member Board and has donated a 500TB Panasas ActiveStor® high-performance storage solution to support the acceleration of microbiome research. ActiveStor drives productivity and accelerates time to results with ultrafast streaming performance, true linear scalability, enterprise-grade reliability and unparalleled ease of management.