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Re:Crossing the 1 tb/s throughput threshold for object stora... by the8472 on Sunday November 10, 2019 @04:46PM (#21500374)
P2P-DMA is making inroads to the linux kernel. Which means software can limit itself to orchestrating transfers between storage, GPUs, accelerators and network cards and avoid having the data touch system RAM or the CPUs.
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Re:Crossing the 1 tb/s throughput threshold for object stora... by natmaka on Monday November 11, 2019 @09:13AM (#21504928)
Confining the CPU to the most noble processing, and flanking him with highly-specialized units directly exchanging... isn't it the mainframe all over again?
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