Carloz Thomaz, DDN
In this video from LAD’17 in Paris, Carlos Thomaz from DDN presents: Lustre File System on ARM.
“With the first set of Arm-based HPC servers debuting at SC17 in Denver, the platform is being evaluated for Lustre performance by a number of other organizations including Cray, DDN, and ORNL.”
Motivations:
ARM momentum
- 64bit evolution
- Recent debuts on HPC
- Traction in new areas such as Machine Learning and AI
Another option in the market
- Intel established as de-facto standard
- Market needs competitors; cost reduction
Technical reasons
- Potential high bandwidth, high throughput processor
- Low power consumption option
- The Technical challenge
Carlos Thomaz is an HPC System Architect with over 17 years of experience including experience in the areas of High Performance Storage, High Performance Computing architecture, benchmarking, customer support and professional services.
