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Status Planned for future release
Workspace Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS)
Created by Guest
Created on Oct 8, 2021

RELATED IDEAS

ARM Support in Spectrum Scale

The Jülich Supercompting Centre is running HPC compute resources for the European Science community. The storage solution is based of a central Spectrum Scale storage cluster which is mounted on ~8.000 compute nodes using GPFS remote cluster mount (native).
Due to current development on the HPC market we are looking (and also other sides we think) especially at ARM based compute node systems. The reason is that this type of CPUs allows to run GPU accelerator on a compute node by using a host CPU with low power consumption.
But today Spectrum scale does not support any ARM based system.

Idea priority High
  • Guest
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    |     May 13, 2022

    The enablement of Nvidia GPU nodes based on ARM processor to access data natively and via GPU direct is very important to keep Spectrum Scale relevent for HPC/AI/ML customers.

  • Guest
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    |     Mar 31, 2022

    ARM support is important to have, so that Spectrum Scale continues to be relevant for HPC customers looking for alternatives to x86.

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