DRACO 500 TB Parallel-FS NVMe AI Storage

Overview

The DRACO 500 TB Parallel-FS NVMe AI Storage is a scale-out parallel-filesystem NVMe storage system built to feed entire GPU clusters during large-scale AI training. It delivers 500 TB usable (NVMe) at 320 GB/s read with GPUDirect Storage across a clustered namespace, so datasets, checkpoints and weights stream to many GPU nodes in parallel without the storage becoming the bottleneck — on-premises, in INR, on a GST invoice.

Engineered for cluster-scale AI/HPC data pipelines, it presents a single parallel namespace over high-speed networking and scales capacity and bandwidth together by adding nodes — delivered racked, configured and validated as one system with one warranty and one support contract.

Key highlights

• 500 TB usable (NVMe) · 320 GB/s read — cluster-scale bandwidth sized to feed many GPU nodes during training.
• Parallel filesystem + GPUDirect Storage — a single namespace; data streams from NVMe straight to GPU memory across the cluster.
• Parallel FS (Lustre/GPFS-class) + NFS/S3, GPUDirect Storage — parallel and standard protocols so existing pipelines and schedulers just work.
• 48× 15.36 TB NVMe (2 nodes) — dense enterprise NVMe with end-to-end data integrity, scaling across nodes.
• 8× 200G InfiniBand/Ethernet — high-bandwidth networking to the GPU fabric; bandwidth grows with capacity.
• 20M random read — high aggregate random-read IOPS for metadata- and small-file-heavy AI datasets.
• On-prem data sovereignty — datasets and weights stay in-house; DPDP-friendly, air-gappable.
• Make-in-India OEM — predictable INR pricing, GST tax invoice (HSN 8471), pan-India onsite support, GeM-procurable.

Where it fits

• Cluster training data lake (primary): the high-bandwidth tier that streams datasets to a GPU cluster in parallel without starving any node.
• Checkpoints & weights: fast parallel write/read of large checkpoints during long multi-node runs.
• RAG & vector stores: low-latency storage for large embeddings, indexes and retrieval corpora.
• HPC scratch: high-throughput scratch for simulation alongside AI.

How it works

A clustered parallel filesystem stripes data across NVMe nodes and presents one namespace over 8× 200G InfiniBand/Ethernet. With GPUDirect Storage, reads bypass the CPU and land directly in GPU memory across the cluster, so GPUs compute instead of waiting on I/O. Capacity and bandwidth scale together as nodes are added. Honest note: real throughput depends on dataset shape, file sizes and the client fabric — we validate it on your data, not just a peak number.

Industry use cases

• AI/ML & foundation-model teams — feed GPU clusters at full speed during training.
• Government & national labs — sovereign data lakes for national AI and HPC.
• BFSI & healthcare — high-throughput, data-resident storage under compliance.
• Media & design — fast scratch and asset storage for generative pipelines.
• Energy & manufacturing — large simulation and sensor datasets for AI/HPC.
• Neocloud / AI providers — the high-bandwidth storage tier for a GPU cloud.

Performance — and how to be sure

We don’t publish inflated peak numbers. The honest picture: 500 TB usable (NVMe) at 320 GB/s read and 20M random read is sized to keep a multi-node GPU cluster fed. Want certainty? Request a free benchmark with your datasets and training loop on this exact configuration before you buy; we’ll send back real sustained throughput, IOPS and GPU-utilisation under your workload.

Series & scale path

• DRACO (flagship storage tier) — this.
• Capacity ladder: 100/250 TB all-flash → 500 TB / 1 PB / 2 PB+ parallel-FS → object storage at exabyte scale.
• When to step up: add nodes for more capacity and bandwidth, or add an object tier for cold data — talk to an architect.

On-prem vs cloud — the TCO case

For cluster-scale AI data, owning beats renting: cloud egress and per-GB costs add up fast against large, frequently-read datasets, and on-prem keeps data resident and the cluster fed without network limits. RDP pricing is fixed in INR with a GST input-credit-eligible invoice — ask for a 3-year TCO comparison including egress savings.

Software & integration

Integrates with your stack: Parallel FS (Lustre/GPFS-class) + NFS/S3, GPUDirect Storage, NVIDIA GPUDirect Storage, and standard NFS/S3 clients, with monitoring and quota/multi-tenant management. Works with PyTorch/TensorFlow data loaders, Slurm/Kubernetes and common MLOps tooling.

Power, cooling & rack integration

A 4U (2-node) air-cooled system with redundant PSUs — specify rack power and cooling. (Exact power draw, BTU, airflow and rack-depth figures confirmed on the build sheet.) Full out-of-band management and drive hot-swap.

Deployment, warranty & support

• Made to order, built, racked and burned-in in India; lead time confirmed at quote.
• In the box: storage nodes, drives, rails, cabling, quick-start, and the configured parallel filesystem.
• Onsite warranty + AMC with pan-India coverage, drive-replacement SLA and an RMA/escalation path (exact terms confirmed at quote).

Why RDP

14 years of Make-in-India infrastructure and 300,000+ devices shipped. Indian OEM, INR pricing, GST tax invoice (HSN 8471), pan-India onsite engineers, GeM availability, and DPDP / sovereign-AI-ready deployment.

Buy with confidence

This is a cluster-scale AI storage system, made to order — talk to an RDP solution architect, size capacity, bandwidth and fabric for your GPU cluster, get a 3-year TCO, and benchmark your own datasets before you commit. Request a quote to begin.

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