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Bright Systems, Inc.

Company Name
Bright Systems, Inc.
www.4bright.com
 

Contact and email
Clint Welden
Clint.Welden@4bright.com

Tel: 775-772-1425

Product
Single stream workspace - 2K resolution.

Tested May 2008
BM
IOps
Total bandwidth to/from disk
BM1 DPX_2kfull_seq_read
49.12 IOps
604.03 MBps
BM2 DPX_2kfull_seq_render
27.37 IOps
336.62 MBps
BM3 DPX_2kfull_random_read
33.60 IOps
413.22 MBps
BM4 DPX_2kfull_70_30_frag_render
21.55 IOps
264.95 MBps
BM5 DPX_2kfull_seq_write
53.75 IOps
660.90 MBps
BM6 DPX_2kfull_random_write
16.47 IOps
202.58 MBps
BM7 DPX2stream2k_read_frag_70%
36.38 IOps
447.36 MBps

Vendor will deal with Channel Y / End Customer Y

Description: The BrightDrive (SAN) that was tested consists of a server with a single high-performance SATA RAID array. The system was tested using a single workstation running the APL benchmark connected to a fibre channel switch via dual 4Gb links. The storage was at 50% capacity. Configurations are available which support multiple concurrent streams at various resolutions. 
 
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Company Name
Bright Systems, Inc.
www.4bright.com
 

Contact and email
Clint Welden
Clint.Welden@4bright.com

Tel: 775-772-1425

Product
Dual stream workspace - 2K resolution. Configuration will support multiple streams at lower resolutions. *multi-stream workspaces available.

Tested May 2008
BM
IOps
Total bandwidth to/from disk
BM1 DPX_2kfull_seq_read
55.63 IOps
684.05 MBps
BM2 DPX_2kfull_seq_render
41.32 IOps
508.16 MBps
BM3 DPX_2kfull_random_read
37.82 IOps
465.03 MBps
BM4 DPX_2kfull_70_30_frag_render
26.81 IOps
329.72 MBps
BM5 DPX_2kfull_seq_write
54.68 IOps
672.43 MBps
BM6 DPX_2kfull_random_write
22.63 IOps
278.28 MBps
BM7 DPX2stream2k_read_frag_70%
41.00 IOps
504.18 MBps

Vendor will deal with Channel Y / End Customer Y

Description: The BrightDrive (SAN) that was tested consists of a server with two high-performance SATA RAID arrays. The system was tested using a single workstation running the APL benchmark connected to a fibre channel switch via dual 4Gb links. The storage was at 50% capacity. Configurations are available which support multiple concurrent streams at various resolutions.
 
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Company Name
Bright Systems, Inc.
www.4bright.com
 

Contact and email
Clint Welden
Clint.Welden@4bright.com

Tel: 775-772-1425

Product
Single stream workspace - 2K resolution. Configuration will support.multiple streams at lower resolutions. *multi-stream workspaces available.

Tested March 2008
BM
IOps
Total bandwidth to/from disk
BM1 DPX_2kfull_seq_read
51.03 IOps
627.55 MBps
BM2 DPX_2kfull_seq_render
35.92 IOps
441.65 MBps
BM3 DPX_2kfull_random_read
36.01 IOps
442.81 MBps
BM4 DPX_2kfull_70_30_frag_render
29.66 IOps
364.71 MBps
BM5 DPX_2kfull_seq_write
53.75 IOps
660.94 MBps
BM6 DPX_2kfull_random_write
25.48 IOps
313.34 MBps
BM7 DPX2stream2k_read_frag_70%
40.23 IOps
494.69 MBps

Vendor will deal with Channel Y / End Customer Y

Description: The BrightDrive (SAN) that was tested consists of a server with a single 4Gb fibre channel RAID array. The system was tested using a single workstation running SCRATCH and the APL benchmark connected to a fibre channel switch via dual 4Gb links. The storage was at 50% capacity. Configurations are available which support multiple concurrent streams at various resolutions - up to 4K. 
 

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Data Direct Networks


Company Name
Data Direct Networks
www.datadirectnet.com

Contact and email
Marc Benguigui
mbenguigui@datadirectnet.com

Product
S2A 8500

Tested March 2005
BM IOps  
Total bandwidth to/from disk
BM1 27.1 IOps
333MBps
BM2 23.6 IOps
290MBps
BM3 21.6 IOps
266MBps
BM4 21.4 IOps
263MBps
BM5 26.2 IOps
322MBps
BM6 26.1 IOps
321MBps
BM7 22.5 IOps
277MBps

Vendor will deal with Channel Y / End Customer Y
 
Description: The SAN setup tested is based on the S2A 8500 controller with 2.5GB cache and encompassed 80 drives configured as Data Direct’s three tired stripe set. The system was tested with one workstation, running SCRATCH and the APL benchmark, attached over dual 2Gb Fibre Channel links. 40% system capacity of the S2A 8500 array was used by this single workstation. Direct connectivity for a second SCRATCH® seat is available on this particular setup. The setup passed all requirements.

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