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Data analytics is an ever-changing industry that ranges from pharma to manufacturing and a vast pool of industries in between. Predictive analysis and model training are not new concepts, but they are continuously being improved and tuned to reach faster results. As these algorithms improve, so must technology improve to keep pace and deliver the required results in a timely manner.
The massive demand on hardware, specifically memory and CPU, to train analytic models is mitigated when we introduce graphical processing units (GPUs). This demand is also reduced with technology advancements such as NVIDIA GPUDirect Storage (GDS). This document dives into GDS and how Dell Technologies has partnered with NVIDIA to enable GDS within the Dell PowerScale scale-out storage family.
The testing and results described in this paper demonstrate how PowerScale OneFS with NFSoRDMA is fully compatible and supported by NVIDIA GDS. The results also demonstrate how the linear scalability of the PowerScale F600 scale-out NAS powered by OneFS can meet the performance and growth demands of ever-changing analytic workloads.