Intel Optane Persistent Memory Distributed Asynchronous Object Storage Solution Sets Record

Intel Corp.‘s Optane Persistent Memory (PMem), in combination with the company’s open-source distributed asynchronous object storage (DAOS) solution, sets a new world record, soaring to the top of the Virtual Institute for I/O IO-500 list.

Optane persistent memory 200 series provides customers
up to 4.5TB of memory per socket to manage data-intensive workloads,
such as in-memory databases, dense virtualization,
analytics and high-powered computing.

With 30 servers of Optane PMem, DAOS solution defeated best HPCs and ranks ≠1 for file system performance.

These results validate the solution’s delivery as having the most performance of any distributed storage today. They also demonstrate how Intel is changing the storage paradigm by providing customers the persistence of disk storage with the fine-grained and low-latency data access of memory in its Optane PMem product.

“The recent IO-500 results for DAOS demonstrate the continuing maturity of the software’s functionality enabled by a well-managed code development and testing process. The collaborative development program will continue to deliver additional capabilities for DAOS in support of Argonne’s upcoming exascale system, Aurora,” said Gordon McPheeters, HPC systems administration specialist, Argonne Leadership Computing Facility.

DAOS with Optane PMem made its debut onto IO-500 list at SC19.
This year, the company’s customers Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) and Argonne National Laboratory also entered DAOS with Optane PMem solutions, which landed at ≠3 and ≠4 on the full list, respectively. In the 10-node challenge, where systems are compared with 10 clients each, the 3 Optane PMem DAOS solutions took the top 3 rankings (Intel, TACC and Argonne). Both lists are important for the assessment of file system efficiency, client performance and scalability on mass scale installations.

“We are extremely grateful to our partners, software developers and larger ecosystem for helping us achieve the N°1 ranking,” said Alper Ilkbahar, VP, data platforms group, and GM, memory and storage products group, Intel. “Only with the combination of DAOS and Intel persistent memory can such performance be reached today. We are very excited to continue to innovate with our partners and customers and keep pushing the limits of speed and performance.“

Resources:
Deep dive     
IO-500 list     
DAOS solutions brief

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