“Intel® Parallel Computing Centers are universities, institutions, and labs that are leaders in their field. The primary focus is to modernize applications to increase parallelism and scalability through optimizations that leverage cores, caches, threads, and vector capabilities of microprocessors and coprocessors.” – Intel
Due to the increasing gap between computational speed, network speed and storage capacity, it has become necessary to investigate data reduction techniques. Storage systems have become a significant part of the total cost of ownership due to the increased amount of storage devices, their associated acquisition cost and energy consumption.
Ultimately, we are aiming for compression support in Lustre at multiple levels:
Compression will be completely transparent to the applications because it will be performed by the client and/or server on their behalf. However, it will be possible for users to tune Lustre's behavior to obtain the best performance/compression/etc. When using client-side compression, the single stream performance bottleneck will directly benefit from the compression. Initial studies have shown that a compression ratio of 1.5 can be achieved for scientific data using lz4.
So far, we have contributed several changes to Lustre and other projects.
Intel Parallel Computing Center for Lustre “Enhanced Adaptive Compression in Lustre”
Working period: 2016-06–2020-05