The HPE ClusterStor E1000 is an engineered storage solution specifically designed for the extreme I/O demands of High-Performance Computing (HPC) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) workloads. Its core architecture is built upon the Lustre parallel file system. Lustre enables massive I/O parallelism by striping data across numerous storage servers and disks. This allows thousands of compute clients to read and write data simultaneously at extremely high, sustained speeds, which is the fundamental requirement for large-scale simulation, modeling, and AI training tasks. The system's performance is a direct result of this parallel file system implementation.

A. Object storage replication is primarily a feature for data durability and availability across geographic locations, not the core mechanism for providing sustained, low-latency parallel I/O performance for HPC clusters.

C. Deduplication and compression are data reduction techniques. While useful for capacity optimization, their computational overhead can introduce latency, which is often detrimental to the performance of HPC applications.

D. ZFS snapshots are a data protection feature that provides point-in-time, read-only copies of a file system. This is crucial for recovery but does not contribute to the primary I/O performance for active workloads.

1. HPE ClusterStor E1000 Data Sheet. (Document Number: a00092795enw

Published: March 2020). Page 1 states

"HPE ClusterStor E1000 storage systems are purpose-built for HPC and AI workloads. Based on the open-source Lustre parallel file system

the HPE ClusterStor E1000 is a scale-out storage solution that can scale to over 100 PB in a single namespace and deliver over 1.6 TB/s of throughput." This directly links the system's performance to its Lustre foundation.

2. HPE ClusterStor E1000 QuickSpecs. (Document Number: a00092794enw

Version 10

Published: April 2

2024). Under the "Standard Features" section on Page 2

it explicitly lists "Lustre® parallel file system" as the core software. The entire document frames the product's value proposition around delivering performance for HPC via Lustre.

3. HPE Reference Configuration for AI with HPE ClusterStor E1000 storage. (Document Number: a00094948enw

Published: April 2020). Page 4

under the "HPE ClusterStor E1000 storage" section

explains

"The Lustre parallel file system is the key component that enables the HPE ClusterStor E1000 to deliver the performance and scalability required for AI and analytics workloads."