On 02/18/2013 06:05 AM, Igor Kozin wrote: > Intel Introduces Cache Acceleration Software > > http://newsroom.intel.com/community/intel_newsroom/blog/2013/02/12/introducing-intel-cache-acceleration-software-for-use-with-intel-ssd-data-center-family > > It would be interesting to know if anyone had a success with it > especially in the context of parallel file systems. > > The earlier discussion on the list may have been directly provoked by > the news. If so apologies that I missed the connection.
Negative. My original post was not motivated by this. I was motivated by just a 'what-if' line of thinking. I just skimmed this press release, but this sounds similar to LSI's CacheCade product which Dell is offering in it's PERC H700 card, Fuision-io's directCache, or LSI's Nytro products https://support.dell.com/support/edocs/software/svradmin/6.4/en/OMSS/ecache.htm http://www.fusionio.com/data-sheets/directcache/ http://www.lsi.com/products/storagecomponents/Pages/SolidState.aspx My ideas was client-based caching of a parallel filesystem, which has a significant flaw. One of those flaws that everyone overlooks, but when someone finally brings up, seems amazingly obvious: cache coherency. -- Prentice _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, [email protected] sponsored by Penguin Computing To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
