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DDN claims it has sold the fastest storage system in the world to the Oak Ridge National Laboratory for its Titan superduperwhoopercomputer, shooting data out faster than 1 terabyte a second. Titan Racks Colourful Titan storage racks The Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) is a US Department of Energy facility managed by …
Sort of true, but these storage systems combine to present a single filesystem (with the associated aggregate performance and capacity) so they are deployed as a single storage system.
To use the same analogy; any cluster isn't a system, it's just a collection of smaller machines.... the Top500 list is going to need some editing.
You don't need 1TB/sec for a single small file though, so who cares if you aren't getting that speed? You could make the same argument at all levels down to striping two drives together on a desktop.
When you parallelize you can get up to double the throughput, but whether you actually do will depend on limitations in the other hardware and in the filesystem. Presumably the guys who designed this knew what they were doing in relation to the types of data they'll be working with.