newsletter The NEXTGenIO Hardware has Landed! We are very proud to be able to showcase the NEXTGenIO prototype system at the ISC 2018 show, utilising the revolutionary Intel® Optane™ DC Persistent Memory NVRAM technology. The prototype, running a realistic simulation of an HPC workload, is available to view on the FUJITSU booth, E-1020.
The prototype system, which the project has been developing for the past two and a half years, is the first step towards true I/O for the Exascale. The use of non-volatile memory is key as this allows us to bridge the gap between memory and storage in traditional HPC systems. The prototype system will be used to explore how the use of NVRAM technology can improve I/O intensive high-performance scientific computing applications. As demand on I/O increases from across scientific and industrial computing sectors, the need for a new class of memory to cope with this demand has been greater than ever. The demonstration running on the prototype is typical of the kinds of applications that Intel® Optane™ DC Persistent Memory can greatly benefit: typical use cases include weather and climate modelling, which are extremely I/O intensive workloads. Weather forecasters often need to perform several forecasts per day, which produces an enormous amount of data for the system to analyse and store. If this data can be kept in NVRAM, the I/O load on the system drops significantly, allowing the process to be completed faster.
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ISC Edition - June 2018