Google Cloud Managed Lustre, Powered by DDN EXAScaler Offering High-Performance File System, Now Generally Available for AI and HPC Workloads

CHATSWORTH, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--DDN®, the global leader in AI and data intelligence solutions, today announced that Google Cloud Managed Lustre, a fully managed, high-performance parallel file system service, powered by DDN’s industry-leading EXAScaler® technology, is now generally available.

Designed to accelerate the most demanding workloads in AI, high-performance computing (HPC), and data-intensive enterprise environments, Google Cloud Managed Lustre brings the power of Lustre — the world’s most scalable parallel file system — natively into the Google Cloud ecosystem. The service is now generally available globally.

“By bringing our EXAScaler technology to Google Cloud customers as a fully managed service, we’re enabling organizations across industries to accelerate innovation without the overhead of managing complex infrastructure,” said Paul Bloch, Co-Founder and President at DDN.

"Partnering with DDN allows us to bring their industry-leading parallel file systems to Google Cloud as a deeply integrated, first-party service,” said Asad Khan, Senior Director, Product Management, Google Cloud Storage. “By combining DDN's decades of expertise in high-performance Lustre with Google Cloud's global infrastructure and AI ecosystem, we are delivering a foundational capability that removes storage bottlenecks and helps our customers solve their most complex challenges in AI and HPC."

"Enterprises today demand AI infrastructure that combines accelerated computing with high-performance storage solutions to deliver uncompromising speed, seamless scalability and cost efficiency at scale,” said Dave Salvator, Director of Accelerated Computing Products, NVIDIA. “Google and DDN’s collaboration on Google Cloud Managed Lustre creates a better-together solution uniquely suited to meet these needs. By integrating DDN’s enterprise-grade data platforms and Google’s global cloud capabilities, organizations can readily access vast amounts of data and unlock the full potential of AI with the NVIDIA AI platform (or NVIDIA accelerated computing platform) on Google Cloud —reducing time-to-insight, maximizing GPU utilization, and lowering total cost of ownership.”

Purpose-Built for Performance, Simplicity, and Scale

Google Cloud Managed Lustre delivers industry-leading performance of up to 1 TB/s read throughput with <1ms latency and can scale seamlessly from 18 TiB to 8 PiB+. With multiple performance tiers (125 MB/s/TiB to 1000 MB/s/TiB), organizations can tailor performance to meet the specific needs of their AI, simulation, or analytics workloads.

The service offers:

• Fully managed operations through the Google Cloud Console, CLI, and APIs
• Native integration with Google Cloud services like Google Cloud Compute Engine, Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), IAM, VPC Service Controls, and Google Cloud's Vertex AI platform
• Optimized performance for AI/ML training, financial modeling, rendering, genomic analysis, and more
• Enterprise-grade reliability with a 99.9% SLA
• Terraform support, bulk data movement with Google Cloud Storage, and a Managed CSI Driver for GKE

Unlocking Value Across Industries

From LLM training and risk analysis to climate research and drug discovery, Google Cloud Managed Lustre serves customers in financial services, life sciences, manufacturing, public sector, and media and entertainment.

"I consolidated the previous storage systems into one centralized DDN storage system using a global EXAScaler Lustre file system, which can deliver the needed performance and scalability. Having spent 20 years implementing DDN systems successfully, it was an easy decision for me to choose DDN for Helmholtz Munich’s infrastructure rehaul,” said Dr Alf Wachsmann, Head of DigIT Infrastructure & Scientific Computing | Helmholtz Munich.

Availability and Getting Started

Google Cloud Managed Lustre is generally available. Customers can deploy instances directly through the Google Cloud Console or speak with Google Cloud or DDN representatives for tailored guidance and support.

To learn more, read the Google blog: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/storage-data-transfer/google-cloud-managed-lustre-for-ai-hpc.

About DDN

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