Description: Modern high performance computing (HPC) applications generate massive amounts of data. However, the performance improvement of disk based storage systems has been much slower than that of memory, creating a significant Input/Output (I/O) performance gap. As we move towards the exascale era, I/O bottleneck is a must to solve performance bottleneck facing the HPC community.
In this project, we design and develop a new distributed I/O buffering system called Hermes that utilizes the deep memory and storage hierarchy to accelerate all I/O operations at large scale. Hermes will advance I/O technology by developing new buffering algorithms and mechanisms to support modern scalable applications in science and the tech industry. Find out more about the project at http://www.cs.iit.edu/~scs/assets/projects/Hermes/Hermes.html
Visit the code repository at https://github.com/hdfgroup/hermes
The Scalable Computing Software Lab (SCS Lab) at Illinois Tech is a research lab focusing on High-Performance Computing (HPC) technologies with an expertise in scalable memory and storage systems. The SCS Lab has more than 20 years history with tremendous impact in the scientific community. The impact of the SCS lab is tremendous with hundreds of technical papers, thousands of citations, dozens of patented technologies and software tools, hundreds of alumni, and more than 20 current members conducting innovative research and development today. Find out more at http://www.cs.iit.edu/~scs/
Interested or have questions? Contact: scslab@iit.edu or akougkas@iit.edu