Hammerspace: A High Performance, Global Data Environment connecting data with users and applications, anywhere, anytime
Published: 2023-05-20 | Author: VisionariesNetwork Team
Hammerspace is a ground-breaking software company practically re-setting how data can be used and maintained. The Global Data Platform integrates unstructured data from sites, clouds, and storage systems with extreme parallel performance for AI, GPU, and high-speed analytics to transform how unstructured data is stored. With Hammerspace, organizations stop the miseries of data silos, and its data can become an instantly available resource no matter where users or applications reside.
Electronic Design Automation (EDA)
The EDA is one of those industries that are well-renowned for their dynamic and performance-driven environment. With the increasing complexity in semiconductor designs, the need for EDA teams to rapidly access storage and compute that is high-bandwidth and low-latency becomes inherent for meeting demanding power and performance goals. However, traditional IT infrastructure and legacy solutions fall short in handling these demands.
Hammerspace addresses these challenges with its leading-edge solution for a high-performance global file system, combined with flexibility in cloud compute and storage resourcing. EDA teams can now quickly provision and scale pipelines as demands change with high-performance application workloads. Hammerspace nodes are designed to push data through at the maximum instance and network infrastructure throughput, while the Hammerspace cluster dynamically scales out to concurrently handle any volume of workloads.
The Hammerspace Difference
The Hammerspace solution delivers a number of benefits for EDA teams:
Remote workforce: Utilize heterogeneous HPC cluster and cloud compute resources with linear performance scalability.
Iteration acceleration: Empower the creative departments using a single data set to shrink the cycle of production.
Hybrid cloud: Automate orchestration and data management across data center and cloud region.
Life Sciences
Finally, data management and infrastructure issues in most of the Life Sciences form the biggest challenge ever. With the genomically related decoding complexity, Cryo-EM microscopy, imaging devices, and many others, researchers require access to huge volumes of data to support discovery processes. Traditional storage often struggles to meet these demands, leading to delays.
The Hammerspace solution eliminates all these challenges by providing a latently coherent data environment that allows users, applications, and cloud services to always access appropriate data wherever it is. This will provide further power and allow researchers to create, analyze, and manage creative projects throughout the project lifecycle: from origin through collaborative to archive longitudinally in a distributed environment.
Hammerspace Solution
While being the enabler for Life Sciences researchers, Hammerspace offers the following advantages or benefits:
Create: High-performance data creation maintains the instruments operating at full speed.
Analyze: Share datasets over multiple file protocols and allow different application workflows to simultaneously modify them.
Collaborate: Automated data orchestration to remote teams and distributed data services in the cloud without making multiple copies of data.
Retain: Secure, policy-driven data tiering and data protection.
David Flynn, Chief Executive Officer
Hammerspace Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer David Flynn is a recognized leader in IT innovation who has been architecting disruptive computing platforms since his early work in supercomputing and Linux systems.
David pioneered the use of flash for enterprise application acceleration as founder and former CEO of Fusion-io, which was acquired by SanDisk in 2014. He served as Fusion-io President and CEO until May 2013 and board member until July 2013. As Fusion-io CEO, David was responsible for the company’s strategic direction, oversaw all operations and was the visionary behind the company’s innovative technology and market strategy. Preceding his position as CEO, David was Fusion-io technical found and CTO, where he created the company’s foundational research and development efforts, as well as the development of short- and long-term technological roadmaps.
Previously, David served as Chief-Architect at Linux Networx where he was instrumental in the creation of the OpenFabrics stack and designed several of the world’s largest supercomputers leveraging Linux clustering, InfiniBand, RDMA-based technologies. Also, David served as Project BlackDog’s Chief Scientist and Vice President of Engineering. He has also held positions Network Computer Inc and Liberate Technologies, a spin-off of Oracle Corporation, developing thin-client solutions.
David holds more than 100 patents in areas across web browser technologies, mobile device management, network switching and protocols to distributed storage systems. He earned a bachelor’s degree in computer science at Brigham Young University and serves on boards for several organizations and startup companies.
“Hammerspace is radically changing how unstructured data is used and preserved. Our Global Data Platform unifies unstructured data across edge, data centers, and clouds.”
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