Fungible and Los Alamos National Laboratory’s Efficient Mission Centric Computing Consortium in Collaboration

Fungible Inc. is collaborating with the Efficient Mission Centric Computing Consortium (EMC3) at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) to help solve some of the most complex physical simulation problems.

The collaboration will initially be exploring the scalability of computational NVMe-oF and will be demonstrating offload of analytics functions on data produced by extreme scale physical simulation.

“We’ve identified the bottlenecks within our existing distributed storage architectures. To achieve our desired storage system efficiency targets we are looking to new hardware approaches that better support our storage processing stacks,” said Brad Settlemyer, senior scientist, HPC design group, in Los Alamos. “The co-design of software and hardware to support data services and data analysis is integral to meeting our efficiency targets and advancing our national security mission.“

Data Processing Unit

Offloading computational tasks to programmable network and storage devices has emerged as a promising path to improve the performance of applications and services running at scale – especially critical for both cloud and HPC data centers. The company‘s distributed approach to offloading and accelerating infrastructure functions, via the Fungible Data Processing Unit or  DPU, represents a change to existing storage and networking concepts.

Settlemyer added: “Los Alamos is happy to see standards-based computational network and storage technology emerging and has high hopes it can be applied to our most pressing and complex simulations for national security needs. We look forward to a fruitful collaboration with Fungible and welcome Fungible to the Efficient Mission Centric Computing Consortium (EMC3) at LANL.“

“LANL intends to reduce the processing time of the most complex physical simulation problems from 6 months to 6 days,” said Pradeep Sindhu, CEO and co-founder, Fungible. “Fungible is confident that the Fungible DPU will be one of the key enablers in achieving this aggressive goal.“

Fungible Storage Cluster

The Fungible Storage Cluster is a performance, secure, scale-out, disaggregated storage platform, delivering a 15 million IO/s in a 2RU form factor, scaling linearly to 300million IO/s in a 40RU rack, and extending further to many racks. The performance enables workloads to be consolidated, increasing utilization of storage media, and improving footprint and $/IO/s by at least 3x compared to existing SDS solutions.