Method and apparatus for offloading compute resources to a flash co-processing appliance
US9158540B1 · kind B1 · utility
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| Filing date | Nov 13, 2012 |
| Grant date | Oct 13, 2015 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Feb 21, 2034 |
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- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG06F2211/1028
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
Solid-State Drive (SSD) burst buffer nodes are interposed into a parallel supercomputing cluster to enable fast burst checkpoint of cluster memory to or from nearby interconnected solid-state storage with asynchronous migration between the burst buffer nodes and slower more distant disk storage. The SSD nodes also perform tasks offloaded from the compute nodes or associated with the checkpoint data. For example, the data for the next job is preloaded in the SSD node and very fast uploaded to the respective compute node just before the next job starts. During a job, the SSD nodes perform fast visualization and statistical analysis upon the checkpoint data. The SSD nodes can also perform data reduction and encryption of the checkpoint data.
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