How to build a top-IO500 storage cluster using commodity hardware?
Date: November 5, 2025
Time: 5:30pm CET / 8:30am PST
Join Xinnor and MEGWARE for a practical webinar based on the FAU Helma case study: how a compact, all-NVMe storage cluster protected by Xinnor’s xiRAID helped FAU reach a Top-3 spot on the global IO500 list. Speakers Davide Villa (CRO, Xinnor) and Markus Hilger (HPC Engineer, MEGWARE) will walk through the project goals, architecture choices, High Availability design, IO500 benchmark highlights, and the real-world operational lessons learned during deployment and production.
This session is aimed at engineers, architects, IT managers and decision makers who want to understand how to get exceptional performance and reliability from modern storage, whether you’re using Lustre, another parallel or distributed file system, or managing any scale of storage cluster. We’ll explain tradeoffs, cost/benefit considerations, and practical steps you can apply to both new and existing storage deployments.
Key takeaways:
- How xiRAID enables top-tier performance and resilience on commodity NVMe hardware as demonstrated in FAU’s Helma cluster.
- Practical insights on integrating xiRAID with Lustre and other file systems to improve reliability and simplify operations.
- Lessons about reliability, failover and day-to-day operations that matter whether you run Lustre or another file system.
- What lessons from the Helma deployment apply to any storage cluster, whether you’re optimizing an existing system or planning a new one.
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