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IBM continues to enhance Spectrum Scale functionality and performance, in response to recent hardware advancements and evolving workloads. This talk will discuss key enhancements delivered with Spectrum Scale 5.1.2 including upcoming high performance S3 interface, Spectrum Scale ECE enhancements, AFM enhancements, performance enhancements and latest updates on Spectrum Scale BDA and CNSA/CSI. Download slides here …

Restarting for 2022, the SSUG::Digital talks are back with talks over two days. Day 1 Talk 1: What's new in Spectrum Scale 5.1.2 IBM continues to enhance Spectrum Scale functionality and performance, in response to recent hardware advancements and evolving workloads. This talk will discuss key enhancements delivered with Spectrum Scale 5.1.2 including upcoming high …

Starting with IBM Spectrum Scale 5.1.1, Multiple Connections Over TCP (MCOT) is enabled by default which enhances the IBM Spectrum Scale communication subsystem to establish multiple TCP connections for communication between each pair of Spectrum Scale daemons (mmfsd). Using more connections may improve performance and resiliency, particularly for some bonded configurations which can use more …

With GPUDirect Storage (GDS) NVIDIA has created a data path from the storage directly into the buffer of NVIDIA GPUs. IBM Spectrum Scale is perfectly suited to take advantage of this feature from NVIDIA to further enhance storage performance. This joint session by NVIDIA and IBM development provides GDS overview, highlights how GDS has been …

  Restarting for 2022, the SSUG::Digital talks are back with talks over two days. Day 2 Talk 1: GPU Direct Storage with Spectrum Scale With GPUDirect Storage (GDS) Nvidia has created a data path from the storage directly into the buffer of Nvidia GPUs. IBM Spectrum Scale is perfectly suited to take advantage of this …

Spectrum Scale is a highly scalable, high-performance storage solution for file and object storage. IBM continues to enhance Spectrum Scale performance, in response to recent hardware advancements and evolving workloads. This presentation will discuss performance related improvements in  Spectrum Scale 5.X versions focusing on enhancements made in support of AI and HPC use cases, including …