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ESS 3500 is up to 12% faster than previous generation.
IBM has unveiled the ESS 3500 – a new storage server designed specifically for AI training work.
The new unit houses 24 drive bays and has a maximum raw capacity of 368TB.
Making use of Spectrum Scale, IBM’s high-performance software, the ESS 3500 can achieve up to 91GB/s of throughput performance.
The system is designed to "break performance barriers" for AI – with its increased power keeping GPUs active to solve AI problems faster.
The new offering can be combined with other IBM storage units – including previous generations in the ESS line. It is also compatible with non-IBM storage. Given its improvements to GPU output, it could be paired with Nvidia DGX A100 systems – which are GPU-focused but lack storage.
The solution comes with Spectrum Scale installed on a pre-configured system, with updates delivered at speed by containerized software.
ESS 3500 key specs
System features
Dual 1-socket Storage Controllers, Active/Active
1024 GB memory
De-Clustered RAID supporting erasure coding schemas: 3-way replication, 4-way replication, 4+2P, 4+3P, 8+2P, 8+3P
Performance
AMD 7642 48 core processor
Sequential read performance up to 91GB/S
Adapters
Four x16 PCIe Gen4 adapter slots
Drive support
12 or 24 NVMe SSDs (3.84TB, 7.68 TB or 15.36 TB)
Software
ESS software 6.1.3.0
IBM Spectrum Scale for ESS 5.1.3.1
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 8.4
Full specifications can be found here.
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