Chan Ekanayake shares his thoughts from Intel’s presentation at Storage Field Day earlier in March. He focuses in on Intel’s Storage Performance Development Kit, and how SPDK will impact enterprise storage. It’s an open sources replacement for a lot of the storage functions of the Linux kernel, which allows for much lower latency, and nearly linear scaling of NVMe drive performance.
In Search of the Perfect Data Management Machine
Glenn Dekhayser has a write up from his first Storage Field Day event. He got to hear from Intel, specifically about their Storage Performance Development Kit. Intel developed this to give hyperscale deployments more consistent performance for storage latency, which in SSDs often experiences frustrating tail latency. SPDK works by isolating an entire CPU core solely to storage IO. This allows for much lower latency, and gives you almost linear scalability with NVMe drives. Glenn is impressed with the impacts this could have at scale.
Intel to take the stage at Tech Field Day!
Sadly, Intel will not be able to present at Tech Field Day after all, but we share Mike’s excitement! Plus, check out Mike’s brief history of the company in the piece, which if named after its founders, would have been called “Moore-Noyce” (good call going with Intel).
Hardware has set the pace for latency, time for software to catch up
Jon Klaus thinks software needs to catch up to SSDs for reducing application latency. Initially, SSDs were limited by storage processors and buses build with spinning disks in mind. This has largely been remedied, so where’s the next big performance bottleneck? Latency.
Jon looks at how Intel’s Storage Performance Development Kit, presented at Storage Field Day in October, effects latency by replacing the traditional Linux kernel in storage controllers.
Open-Source Hardware Designs – One step beyond commodity?
Open-Source Hardware Designs – One step beyond commodity?
What should we expect from the next generation storage?
What should we expect from the next generation storage?
10 on Tech Episode 013: J Metz on NVMe and NVMe-oF
10 on Tech Episode 013: J Metz on NVMe and NVMe-oF
How Intel’s open source Data Plane Development Kit enables high-performance Linux networking
How Intel’s open source Data Plane Development Kit enables high-performance Linux networking
The Importance of the Network Software Supply Chain
The Importance of the Network Software Supply Chain
Intel Cloud Day 2016 Panel: Driving Optimized Cloud Solutions for the Next 10000Clouds
Intel Cloud Day 2016 Panel: Driving Optimized Cloud Solutions for the Next 10,000 Clouds