Achieving Exponential Gains in Imaging Speed

A Dicom Systems and Pure Storage White Paper

Dicom Systems and Pure Storage conducted testing to evaluate if high-performance data storage affects medical image transmission latency and transfer speed. The testing focused on the routing functionality of the Dicom Systems Unifier enterprise imaging platform.
We tested various workflow functions including but not limited to Unifier DICOM routing and tag morphing, supported by Pure Storage(R) hardware. Our goal was to confirm if transmission time and transfer speed correlated with storage performance. Measurements included large, regular, and small DICOM studies. We tested a maximum throughput of 1,280 megabytes (MB) and assessed I/O performance and latency.

Appendix A

Hardware Specifications
Hardware description:

Sender 1 Sender 2
VMWare ESXi 6.7
Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2697 v3 @ 2.60GHz
16 CPUs
64 GB RAM
10 Gbps network card
Storage: FlashArray//X50 (SAN)
VMWare ESXi 6.7
Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2697 v3 @ 2.60GHz
16 CPUs
64 GB RAM
10 Gbps network card
Storage: FlashArray//X50 (SAN)
routing function VNA receiver
VMWare ESXi 6.7
Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2630 v3 @ 2.40GHz
16 CPUs
64 GB RAM
two 10 Gbps network cards
Storage: FlashArray//X50 (SAN)
VMWare ESXi 6.7
Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2630 v3 @ 2.40GHz
16 CPUs
64 GB RAM
two 10 Gbps network cards
Storage: FlashArray//X50 (SAN)

Speed of Storage Platform
X50 FlashArray (SAN)

Appendix B

Further information about Test 1.1
Statistics from the Pure Storage backend:

Unifier Platform DICOM Routing Function General Page Statistics:

Unifier Platform DICOM Routing Function Average Speed:
Unifier Platform DICOM Routing Function Storage Utilization:
Unifier Platform DICOM Routing Function Network Utilization:
Unifier DICOM Routing Function CPU Utilization:
Unifier Platform DICOM Routing Function RAM Consumption:
Unifier Platform DICOM Routing Function Storage Consumption:
Unifier Platform DICOM Routing Function HTOP Statistics:

Appendix C

Further information about Test 1.2

Details:
Statistics from the Pure Storage backend:

Unifier Platform DICOM Routing Function General Statistics:

Unifier Platform DICOM Routing Function Average Speed:
Unifier Platform DICOM Routing Function Storage Consumption:
Unifier Platform DICOM routing function storage utilization:
Unifier Platform DICOM routing function network utilization:
Unifier Platform DICOM routing function CPU utilization:

Appendix D

Further information about Test 1.3
Statistics from the Pure Storage backend:

Unifier Platform DICOM Routing Function General Statistics:
Unifier Platform DICOM Routing Function Average Speed:
Unifier Platform DICOM Routing Function Storage Utilization:
Unifier Platform DICOM Routing Function Network Utilization:
Unifier Platform DICOM Routing Function CPU Utilization:
Unifier Platform DICOM Routing Function RAM Consumption:
Unifier Platform DICOM Routing Function Storage Consumption:
Unifier Platform DICOM Routing Function HTOP stats: