Exploring the future of out-of-core computing with compute-local non-volatile memory
Myoungsoo Jung, Ellis Wilson, Wonil Choi, John M. Shalf, Hasan Metin Aktulga, Chao Yang, Érik Saule, Ümit V. Çatalyürek, Mahmut Kandemir · 2013
Drawing parallels to the rise of general purpose graphical processing units (GPGPUs) as accelerators for specific high-performance computing (HPC) workloads, there is a rise in the use of non-volatile memory (NVM) as accelerators for I/O-intensive scientific applications. However, existing works have explored use of NVM within dedicated I/O nodes, which are distant from the compute nodes that actually need such acceleration. As NVM bandwidth begins to out-pace point-to-point network capacity, we argue for the need to break from the archetype of completely separated storage.