LEED: A Low-Power, Fast Persistent Key-Value Store on SmartNIC JBOFs
Zerui Guo, Hua Zhang, Chenxingyu Zhao, Yuebin Bai, Michael M. Swift, Ming Liu · 2023
The recent emergence of low-power high-throughput programmable storage platforms-SmartNIC JBOF (just-a-bunch-of-flash)-motivates us to rethink the cluster architecture and system stack for energy-efficient large-scale data-intensive workloads. Unlike conventional systems that use an array of server JBOFs or embedded storage nodes, the introduction of SmartNIC JBOFs has drastically changed the cluster compute, memory, and I/O configurations. Such an extremely imbalanced architecture makes prior system design philosophies and techniques either ineffective or invalid.