STFC Machine Learning Group Deploys Elastic NVMe Storage to Power GPU Servers - insideHPC

At SC19, Excelero announced that the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) has deployed a new HPC architecture to support computationally intensive analysis including machine learning and AI-based workloads using the NVMesh elastic NVMe block storage solution. Done in partnership with Boston Limited, the deployment is enabling researchers from STFC and the Alan Turing Institute to complete machine learning training tasks that formerly took three to four days, in just one hour – and other foundational scientific computations that researchers formerly could not perform. The Science and Technology Facilities Council is a part of U.K. Research and Innovation (UKRI) and supports pioneering scientific and engineering research by over 1,700 academic researchers worldwide on space materials and life sciences, nuclear physics and much more. In benchmark testing we quickly saw that our Flash-IO Talyn systems with the Excelero NVMesh software delivered a significant performance ...