STEC announced that its popular ZeusRAM SSD will be featured in the STEC booth (#822), with live demonstrations in selective customer booths, at this week's International Supercomputing Conference (ISC). Targeted towards high-write transactional oriented environments that depend upon fast write performance, ZeusRAM SSD is ideally suited for high-performance computing (HPC) applications where high availability storage and super low-latency responses are required to minimize response times and speed up system analytics and performance.

ZeusRAM SSD is a perfect fit for metadata (the information on where and how data is stored) and logging applications in HPC environments. It solves the primary challenge in these HPC environments by providing high access speed to data while minimizing latency to a low sub 23 microseconds. This capability is especially important to network attached storage (NAS) and unified storage appliances that need high-speed access to metadata on very complex and analytical systems.

Built upon STEC's proven ZeusIOPS architecture, ZeusRAM SSD utilizes fully backed up DRAM to Flash capabilities that ensures power back-up protection in the event of a host system's power loss. This innovative design leverages the endurance of DRAM and the persistence of flash memory to create an enterprise drive for HPC applications that is highly reliable with superior wear resistance.

"Given its fast access to metadata, persistent writes, and wear resistant reliability, our ZeusRAM SSD solution is ideal for HPC applications and will replace older technologies outside of the traditional enterprise storage arenas that includes NAS, unified storage and data protection appliances," said Manouch Moshayedi, STEC's Chairman and CEO. "Coupled with ultra low-latency, ZeusRAM SSD minimizes storage bottlenecks to deliver a best-in-class experience within the enterprise."