NVIDIA Launches Magnum IO Software Suite to Help Eliminate Data Bottlenecks for Data Scientists and AI, HPC Researchers
November 18 2019 - 6:40PM
SC19 -- NVIDIA today introduced NVIDIA Magnum IO,
a suite of software to help data scientists and AI and high
performance computing researchers process massive amounts of data
in minutes, rather than hours.
Optimized to eliminate storage and input/output bottlenecks,
Magnum IO delivers up to 20x faster data processing for
multi-server, multi-GPU computing nodes when working with massive
datasets to carry out complex financial analysis, climate modeling
and other HPC workloads.
NVIDIA has developed Magnum IO in close collaboration with
industry leaders in networking and storage, including DataDirect
Networks, Excelero, IBM, Mellanox and WekaIO.
“Processing large amounts of collected or simulated data is at
the heart of data-driven sciences like AI,” said Jensen Huang,
founder and CEO of NVIDIA. “As the scale and velocity of data grow
exponentially, processing it has become one of data centers’ great
challenges and costs.
“Extreme compute needs extreme I/O. Magnum IO delivers this by
bringing NVIDIA GPU acceleration, which has revolutionized
computing, to I/O and storage. Now, AI researchers and data
scientists can stop waiting on data and focus on doing their life’s
work,” he said.
At the heart of Magnum IO is GPUDirect, which provides a path
for data to bypass CPUs and travel on “open highways” offered by
GPUs, storage and networking devices. Compatible with a wide range
of communications interconnects and APIs — including NVIDIA NVLink™
and NCCL, as well as OpenMPI and UCX — GPUDirect is composed of
peer-to-peer and RDMA elements.
Its newest element is GPUDirect Storage, which enables
researchers to bypass CPUs when accessing storage and quickly
access data files for simulation, analysis or visualization.
NVIDIA Magnum IO software is available now, with the exception
of GPUDirect Storage, which is currently available to select
early-access customers. Broader release of GPUDirect Storage is
planned for the first half of 2020.
Ecosystem Support “Modern HPC and AI research
relies upon an incredible amount of data, often more than a
petabyte in scale, which requires a new level of technology
leadership to best handle the challenge. DDN, by taking advantage
of NVIDIA’s Magnum IO suite of software along with our parallel
EXA5-enabled storage architecture, is paving the way to a new
direct data path which makes petabyte-scale data stores directly
accessible to the GPU at high bandwidth, an approach that was not
previously possible.”— Sven Oehme, chief research officer, DDN
“The amount of data that leading HPC and AI researchers now need
to access continues to grow by leaps and bounds, making I/O a
complex challenge for many to manage. IBM Spectrum Scale is
designed to address the needs of any organization looking to
accelerate AI and run data-intensive workloads. The use of IBM
Spectrum Scale and NVIDIA GPU acceleration can help customers
alleviate I/O bottlenecks and get the insights needed from their
data faster.”— Sam Werner, vice president of storage offering
management, IBM
“Leading HPC and AI researchers choose Mellanox to provide them
with the most advanced technology to move and process immense
amounts of data as efficiently and quickly as possible. We have
been working together with NVIDIA to ensure Magnum IO works
seamlessly with Mellanox’s state-of-the-art InfiniBand and Ethernet
interconnect solutions and to enable our mutual customers to
overcome data bottlenecks altogether and advance their science,
research and product development activities.”— Dror Goldenberg,
senior vice president of software architecture, Mellanox
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of the GPU in 1999 sparked the growth of the PC gaming market,
redefined modern computer graphics and revolutionized parallel
computing. More recently, GPU deep learning ignited modern AI — the
next era of computing — with the GPU acting as the brain of
computers, robots and self-driving cars that can perceive and
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limited to, statements as to: the performance, benefits, impact and
availability of NVIDIA Magnum IO and NVIDIA GPUDirect Storage; the
scale of data growing exponentially and moving it for processing as
one of the greatest challenges and costs of data centers; the
amount of data that HPC and AI researchers need to access
continuing to grow; and the impact of the use of IBM Spectrum Scale
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