Rambus Advances Its Smart Data Acceleration Research Program by Partnering With Los Alamos National Laboratory
November 17 2015 - 4:30PM
Business Wire
Initial results show increased performance for
server and data center workloads
Rambus Inc. (NASDAQ: RMBS) today announced that it has partnered
with Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) for evaluating elements
of its Smart Data Acceleration (SDA) Research Program. The SDA
platform has been deployed at LANL to improve the performance of
in-memory databases, graph analytics and other Big Data
applications.
“With the advent of new tiers of the
memory hierarchy coupled with high-speed modern networks
that are being made available to the HPC community, independent
scaling of memory resources in different tiers may be possible,
which will help economically match the needs of future applications
and workflows of extreme high-end HPC,” said Gary Grider,
leader of the High Performance Computing Division, Los Alamos
National Laboratory. “Our initial tests of the Rambus SDA platform
show that its performance is well-matched to HPC interconnects, and
given the ability to process information close to memory, it can
enable the reduction of data movement through efficient
workflows. The SDA Research platform allows for large
scale simulation by combining independently scalable,
high-performance, high-durability, large capacity and processing
near memory.”
Addressing major issues facing servers and data centers in the
age of Big Data, the SDA Research Program targets significant
improvements in the acceleration and offload of computation as the
industry explores new paradigms such as near data processing. In
addition to compute offload and acceleration with flexible
processing engines to enhance system performance, key focus areas
include minimizing data movement and leveraging the improved
bandwidth, and reducing latency of DRAM and other memory
technologies.
“LANL is an ideal partner for our SDA Research Program as we
collaborate with experts to validate our approach and overall
direction,” said Laura Stark, senior vice president and general
manager of the Emerging Solutions division at Rambus. “Our goal is
to provide significant improvements in the performance of
data-intensive applications through optimization of both software
and hardware for compute acceleration and offload.”
The Rambus SDA Research Program provides a platform to
investigate near data processing system architectures that include
software, firmware, FPGAs and large amounts of memory. The platform
can be used to test new methods to optimize and accelerate
analytics for large data sets, including in-memory data bases,
financial services, ad serving, real-time risk analytics, imaging,
transcoding and genome mapping among other applications.
More details about the Rambus SDA Research program can be found
at rambus.com/sda.
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Inspired by the innovative thinking at the heart of Rambus Labs,
the Emerging Solutions division at Rambus works to translate
extraordinary theory into everyday practice, imagining exciting new
ways to interpret and reimagine the world of data around us.
About Rambus Inc.
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spanning memory and interfaces to security, smart sensors and
lighting. Our chips, customizable IP cores, architecture licenses,
tools, services, training and innovations improve the competitive
advantage of our customers. We collaborate with the industry,
partnering with leading ASIC and SoC designers, foundries, IP
developers, EDA companies and validation labs. Our products are
integrated into tens of billions of devices and systems, powering
and securing diverse applications, including Big Data, Internet of
Things (IoT), mobile, consumer and media platforms. At Rambus, we
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