NetApp launched Novus storage architecture, specifying 100 TB/second aggregate bandwidth over Network File System and parallel Network File System protocols.

NetApp rolled out Novus, which HPCwire describes as a new class of storage architecture. NetApp says the architecture can store zettabytes of data and deliver 100 terabytes per second of aggregate bandwidth.

The stated bandwidth is delivered over Network File System (NFS) and parallel Network File System (pNFS) protocols. “Aggregate” is the critical scope: the excerpt does not describe 100 TB/second as the throughput of an individual drive, storage node, or client.

The article frames Novus as addressing a metadata bottleneck in zettascale storage, and NetApp says its bandwidth can keep hundreds of thousands of GPUs productive simultaneously. The supplied excerpt provides neither benchmark conditions nor a customer deployment demonstrating those scale claims.