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Dell EMC’s PowerMax is Now All NVM-Express, Persistent Storage

September 11, 2019 Jeffrey Burt 0

When Dell EMC more than a year ago introduced the PowerMax storage array as the successor to the company’s all-flash VMAX offerings, the company touted the system’s readiness to leverage the NVM-Express (NVMe) protocol and, more importantly, its ability to serve as a gateway to NVMe-over Fabrics (NVMe-oF) and storage-class memory (SCM), both of which would address the growing demand for better performance and latency. …

High Performance Storage Sets Sail

September 9, 2019 Michael Feldman 0

While the natural habitat of HPC storage is supercomputing and enterprise datacenters, the growing popularity of edge computing means sometimes that hardware must live outside its comfort zone. …

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Will HPC Centers Say ADIOS To POSIX I/O?

September 4, 2019 Michael Feldman 0

The widening performance disparity between compute and I/O is not likely to get any better in the fast-approaching exascale era. …

Getting Around The Limits Of Memory To Accelerate Applications

August 18, 2019 Timothy Prickett Morgan 5

Forget in-memory computing for the moment because it requires a complete re-architecting of applications and most of the time the underlying hardware, too. …

Nvidia GPU Accelerators Get A Direct Pipe To Big Data

August 8, 2019 Michael Feldman 1

Nvidia has unveiled GPUDirect Storage, a new capability that enables its GPUs to talk directly with NVM-Express storage. …

New Memory Technologies Poised for High Volume Production

August 1, 2019 Michael Feldman 0

The growing imbalance between computational performance and data access performance has spurred the development of a number of new random access memory (RAM) technologies. …

What is The Next I/O Platform?

July 12, 2019 Nicole Hemsoth 0

Without the right kind and the right amount of I/O between the components of a system, all of the impressive feeds and speeds of the individual components don’t amount to more than a pile of silicon and sheet metal. …

Data as a Service in a Hybrid, Multicloud World

July 8, 2019 Jeffrey Burt 0

As it was emerging, cloud computing was seen as a fairly straight-up proposition for enterprises of finding a cloud, putting applications and data into it and running and storing it all on someone else’s infrastructure. …

A Storage Model for the Exascale Crowd

June 26, 2019 Michael Feldman 3

One bit of news that almost got lost in the shuffle at the recent ISC 2019 conference was Intel’s announcement that it is bringing DAOS, the Distributed Asynchronous Object Storage platform, to supercomputing. …

Auto-Tiered Storage for AI and HPC

June 25, 2019 Michael Feldman 0

DataDirect Networks (DDN) has launched EXA5, the company’s fifth-generation Exascaler Lustre file system platform, which will be used to populate the company’s all-flash, mid-range, and high-end storage appliances. …

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