Broadberry PeakAIO Storage

Active Storage and Retention Serve Different Roles

Why Broadberry for PeakAIO?

Broadberry brings the storage software and underlying infrastructure together around the requirements of the application.

Workload-Led Design

Start with what the application actually needs to do.

Qualified Hardware

Select supported NVMe, server and network components.

Complete Design

Engineer storage, PCIe, CPU, memory and networking together.

Validation & Support

Qualification, validation, expansion and ongoing operational support.

Frequently Asked Questions About PeakAIO Storage

What is PeakAIO storage?

PeakAIO is software-defined storage designed for high-performance shared data access. Its Data Server provides shared NVMe storage, while Open pNFS provides a scale-out architecture for larger environments.

Is PeakAIO only for AI?

No. Although PeakAIO has roots in accelerated computing, it can also be evaluated for data-intensive workloads such as scientific research, analytics and media processing. Application and client requirements should be validated for the proposed configuration.

What's the difference between a PeakAIO Data Server and Open pNFS?

A Data Server provides a concentrated shared NVMe storage service. Open pNFS is a scale-out architecture that coordinates a namespace and directs clients to multiple data servers. Adding independent Data Servers does not automatically create one shared namespace.

Does PeakAIO support high availability?

Availability depends on the selected architecture. Drive protection, redundant network paths and server failover address different failure scenarios, so the required topology and recovery behaviour should be defined and tested for each deployment.

Does PeakAIO support GPUDirect Storage?

PeakAIO can be used in qualified GDS configurations, but GDS requires compatible GPUs, NICs, drivers, storage and an application path that actually uses it. It should be validated with the intended AI workload.

Can PeakAIO replace backup storage?

The active PeakAIO Data Server should not be treated as an independent backup. PEAK:ARCHIVE is the relevant PeakAIO product to evaluate for retention, along with the organisation's backup and recovery requirements.

Can PeakAIO scale as requirements grow?

Yes, but adding Data Servers is different from deploying a coordinated Open pNFS environment. Scale-out requirements should account for metadata, file placement, networking, recovery and the supported software release.

How should PeakAIO storage be sized?

Start with active usable capacity, file sizes and counts, read/write behaviour, concurrent clients, temporary output, growth and recovery requirements. For AI, also consider training reads, checkpoint writes, metadata activity and concurrent GPU jobs.

Plan Your PeakAIO Storage

Tell us about your applications, active dataset, concurrency and performance requirements. Broadberry can design the NVMe hardware, networking and PeakAIO architecture around the work your environment needs to support.