Remote Access NVMe SSD via NTB

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 30-42
Author(s):  
Yu-Sheng Lin ◽  
Chi-Lung Wang ◽  
Chao-Tang Lee

NVMe SSDs are deployed in data centers for applications with high performance, but its capacity and bandwidth are often underutilized. Remote access NVMe SSD enables flexible scaling and high utilization of Flash capacity and bandwidth within data centers. The current issue of remote access NVMe SSD has significant performance overheads. The research focuses on remote access NVMe SSD via NTB (non-transparent bridge). NTB is a type of PCI-Express; its memory mapping technology can allow to access memory belonging to peer servers. NVMe SSD supports multiple I/O queues to maximize the I/O parallel processing of flash; hence, NVMe SSD can provide significant performance when comparing with traditional hard drives. The research proposes a novel design based on features of NTB memory mapping and NVMe SSD multiple I/O queues. The remote and local servers can access the same NVMe SSD concurrently. The experimental results show the performance of remote access NVMe SSD can approach the local access. It is significantly excellent and proved feasible.

Author(s):  
Mark H. Ellisman

The increased availability of High Performance Computing and Communications (HPCC) offers scientists and students the potential for effective remote interactive use of centralized, specialized, and expensive instrumentation and computers. Examples of instruments capable of remote operation that may be usefully controlled from a distance are increasing. Some in current use include telescopes, networks of remote geophysical sensing devices and more recently, the intermediate high voltage electron microscope developed at the San Diego Microscopy and Imaging Resource (SDMIR) in La Jolla. In this presentation the imaging capabilities of a specially designed JEOL 4000EX IVEM will be described. This instrument was developed mainly to facilitate the extraction of 3-dimensional information from thick sections. In addition, progress will be described on a project now underway to develop a more advanced version of the Telemicroscopy software we previously demonstrated as a tool to for providing remote access to this IVEM (Mercurio et al., 1992; Fan et al., 1992).


2020 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sumit Chandra ◽  
Shahnaz Fatima ◽  
Raghuraj Singh Suryavanshi

AbstractIn the present scenario, data centers serve many functionalities like storage, transfer of data, supporting web applications, etc. In data centers, various levels of hierarchy different types of switches are required; therefore, multifunctional data centers are desired. This paper discusses a novel design for optical switch which can be placed at various levels of hierarchy. In the proposed design, multifunctionality contention resolution schemes which consider electronic and optical buffering and all-optical negative acknowledgment (AO-NACK) are considered. In buffering technologies, contending packets are stored in either in electronic RAM or in fiber delay lines. In case of the AO-NACK scheme, contending packets are blocked, and a negative acknowledgment is sent back to the transmitting node and blocked packets are retransmitted. For various considered schemes, Monte Carlo simulation have been performed, results in terms of packet loss probability are presented, and it has been found that the performance of optical buffering is much superior to electronic buffering and AO-NACK schemes. It is found that, in the AO-NACK scheme, the numbers of retransmitted packets due to contention blocking are 33,304 which can be reduced to 7, by using a small amount of buffer at each node.


Electronics ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 486
Author(s):  
Yongjae Chun ◽  
Kyeore Han ◽  
Youpyo Hong

Owing to their advantages over hard disc drives (HDDs), solid-state drives (SSDs) are widely used in many applications, including consumer electronics and data centers. As erase operations are feasible only in block units, modification or deletion of pages cause invalidation of the pages in their corresponding blocks. To reclaim these invalid pages, the valid pages in the block are copied to other blocks, and the block with the invalid pages is initialized, which adversely affects the performance and durability of the SSD. The objective of a multi-stream SSD is to group data by their expected lifetimes and store each group of data in a separate area called a stream to minimize the frequency of wasteful copy-back and initialization operations. In this paper, we propose an algorithm that groups the data based on input/output (I/O) types and rewrite frequency, which show significant improvements over existing multi-stream algorithms not only for performance but also for effectiveness in covering most applications.


2013 ◽  
Vol 427-429 ◽  
pp. 575-581
Author(s):  
Ya Ling Chen ◽  
Chien Chou Lin

This paper presents an efficient direction-of-arrival (DOA) Estimator for dealing with coherent signals. The empirical results show that significant performance degradation occurs when coherent signals coexist. Therefore, an utilizes the low sensitivity of Bartlett algorithm in estimation of DOAs for coherent signals to yield a low-resolution estimation of DOAs as initial search angle and uses fuzzy logic systems with incorporating expert knowledge to improve the resolution and performance of estimation of DOAs in coherent signals environment. Finally, numerical example was analyzed to illustrate high performance of the proposed method and to confirm the designed procedure.


2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Uri Cummings ◽  
Dan Daly ◽  
Rebecca Collins ◽  
Virat Agarwal ◽  
Fabrizio Petrini ◽  
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2017 ◽  
Vol 107 (04) ◽  
pp. 301-305
Author(s):  
E. Prof. Uhlmann ◽  
F. Kaulfersch

Partikelverstärkte Titanmatrix-Verbundwerkstoffe erlauben erhebliche Leistungssteigerungen im Bereich hochtemperaturbeanspruchter Struktur- und Funktionsbauteile. Die durch die Partikelverstärkung gesteigerte Verschleißbeständigkeit, Festigkeit und Härte bedeuten eine große Herausforderung an die spanende Bearbeitung derartiger Hochleistungswerkstoffe. Mittels Zerspanuntersuchungen beim Fräsen konnten unter Variation der Werkzeuggeometrie, der Schneidstoffe und der Prozessstrategie Parameterbeiche identifiziert werden, mit denen die prozesssichere Zerspanung partikelverstärkter Titanmatrix-Verbundwerkstoffe möglich ist.   Particle-reinforced titanium matrix composites ensure significant performance improvements of structural and functional high-temperature components. However, the high wear resistance, toughness and hardness due to particle reinforcement is a major challenge in machining these high performance materials. By conducting milling experiments with a variation of tool geometry, cutting material and process strategy, process parameters could be identified that enable efficient machining of particle-reinforced titanium matrix composites.


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