Architectures for High Performance Computing and Data Systems using Byte-Addressable Persistent Memory

TL;DR

This paper proposes architectures leveraging byte-addressable persistent memory to enable large, high-performance memory systems for HPC and data analytics, potentially transforming data storage and sharing.

Contribution

It introduces a novel architecture designed to exploit persistent memory for high-performance computing and data analytics systems, detailing application benefits.

Findings

Supports memory regions > 3TB per server

Enables very high performance I/O

Facilitates new data sharing methods

Abstract

Non-volatile, byte addressable, memory technology with performance close to main memory promises to revolutionise computing systems in the near future. Such memory technology provides the potential for extremely large memory regions (i.e. > 3TB per server), very high performance I/O, and new ways of storing and sharing data for applications and workflows. This paper outlines an architecture that has been designed to exploit such memory for High Performance Computing and High Performance Data Analytics systems, along with descriptions of how applications could benefit from such hardware.