Storage and I/O Technologies

Burst Buffer

NVRAM and Burst Buffer Use Cases In collaboration with ACES (The Alliance for Computing at Extreme Scale), and as part of the NERSC-8 procurement, NERSC is evaluating use cases for NVRAM on HPC systems, also known as a 'burst buffer'. … Read More »

TOKIO: Total Knowledge of I/O

The Total Knowledge of I/O (TOKIO) project is developing algorithms and a software framework to analyze I/O performance and workload data from production HPC resources at multiple system levels. This holistic I/O characterization framework provides a clearer view of system behavior and the causes of deleterious behavior to application scientists, facility operators and computer science researchers in the field. TOKIO is a collaboration between the Lawrence Berkeley and Argonne National… Read More »