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Limits RegistryOrion, the parallel storage system built for Oak Ridge National Laboratory's Frontier supercomputer (the first system to exceed one exaflop of sustained performance), provides approximately 679 petabytes of usable storage capacity across a mix of flash and hard-disk-based tiers, among the largest parallel file systems deployed for any single supercomputer as of its 2022 deployment. Such systems must sustain extremely high aggregate throughput (multiple terabytes per second) to keep an exascale system's compute nodes fed with data.
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Orion, the parallel storage system built for Oak Ridge National Laboratory's Frontier supercomputer (the first system to exceed one exaflop of sustained performance), provides approximately 679 petabytes of usable storage capacity across a mix of flash and hard-disk-based tiers, among the largest parallel file systems deployed for any single supercomputer as of its 2022 deployment. Such systems must sustain extremely high aggregate throughput (multiple terabytes per second) to keep an exascale system's compute nodes fed with data.
The usable storage capacity of Orion, the Lustre-based parallel file system built by HPE Cray for Oak Ridge National Laboratory's Frontier supercomputer, among the largest parallel file systems attached to any single supercomputer.
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Limits Registry. LR-FRONTIER-ORION-FILESYSTEM. Largest capacity parallel file system attached to a single supercomputer. 2026.