RAID Inc, the customized HPC storage house, and Terascala, with its parallel storage appliances, have cut a strategic partnership to leverage Terascala's parallel file system expertise and let RAID provide complete end-to-end storage solutions for the HPC market.

RAID COO Robert Picardi said "parallel file systems such as Lustre are becoming a requirement in most high performance environments. Many customers now understand that a storage system that can deliver data to keep pace with the processors is a requirement to maximize overall performance and utilization."

Terascala has already qualified the RAID's compact Razor system for use with the integrated, active-passive redundant metadata server architecture of its MTS 1000 solution.

The MTS 1000 is architected for maximum throughput and data availability so applications can run at peak efficiency and delivers over 2 GB/sec from a single enclosure and up to 10 GB/sec from a full rack.

Terascala will also be qualifying RAID's Xanadu solution.