ZFS O_DIRECT with AMD uProf on spirit00 Chassis and O_DIRECT Updates [Slides]
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The driving goal is to investigate the feasibility of a message-based data transport for SPDK. All of SPDK’s existing data transport protocols are “connection-based”, requiring a target to hold state for each connected client / initiator. At extreme scale, juggling these connections from a large number of initiators creates a performance bottleneck. Under a message-based paradigm, we can bypass this behavior, as all initiators share a global communication channel, held open for the entire run. In theory, this approach should minimize connection management overhead at extreme scale.
The presentation describes High Performance Computing (HPC) at Los Alamos National Laboratory.