Artificial intelligence? yawns DDN. That's just the new HPC, isn't it?

DDN is upping array capacities and access speeds with one eye on its traditional HPC customer base and the other on businesses that are testing or deploying deep learning architectures. AI, or perhaps more accurately Machine Learning, could be a gift that keeps on giving for storage and systems players as customers try to crunch through ever growing volumes of business data in a decent time. DDN has two parallel file system scale-out arrays – EXAScaler using Lustre and the GRIDScaler using Spectrum Scale (GPFS for historians). It has just bought Intel's Lustre assets, including its development and support teams, and aims to help accelerate Lustre's development, which is lagging compared to IBM's Spectrum Scale. Parallel file systems provide faster access to data than sequential access filer software, particularly as capacities and the number of users rise.