Comments on: Future Storage Systems: Part 6: GPU accelerated storage http://flickerdown.com/2008/11/future-storage-systems-part-6-gpu-accelerated-storage/ a Blog dedicated to storage and technology Tue, 06 Jul 2010 21:18:22 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Dave Graham http://flickerdown.com/2008/11/future-storage-systems-part-6-gpu-accelerated-storage/comment-page-1/#comment-124 Dave Graham Wed, 12 Nov 2008 18:44:37 +0000 http://flickerdown.com/?p=259#comment-124 Aryan,<br><br>thanks for the comments. When you look at the specialized workloads that GPGPUs can provide additional processing power, it's amazing that they haven't been integrated sooner. I downloaded an interesting whitepaper entitled "QP: A Heterogeneous Multi-Accelerator Cluster" done by the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign that really highlighted the strengths of using both foundational CPUs (OS and programmatic interface) as well as specialized GPGPUs for determined workloads. I think, based on what you've written above, that the encryption (data security) vertical is well suited to using these devices. From a storage perspective, encrypt/decrypt, deduplication (calculation and stream intensive), and even more complex parity workloads will benefit highly from GPGPUs.<br><br>Thanks again!<br><br>cheers,<br><br>Dave Graham Aryan,

thanks for the comments. When you look at the specialized workloads that GPGPUs can provide additional processing power, it's amazing that they haven't been integrated sooner. I downloaded an interesting whitepaper entitled “QP: A Heterogeneous Multi-Accelerator Cluster” done by the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign that really highlighted the strengths of using both foundational CPUs (OS and programmatic interface) as well as specialized GPGPUs for determined workloads. I think, based on what you've written above, that the encryption (data security) vertical is well suited to using these devices. From a storage perspective, encrypt/decrypt, deduplication (calculation and stream intensive), and even more complex parity workloads will benefit highly from GPGPUs.

Thanks again!

cheers,

Dave Graham

]]> By: Aryan http://flickerdown.com/2008/11/future-storage-systems-part-6-gpu-accelerated-storage/comment-page-1/#comment-123 Aryan Wed, 12 Nov 2008 17:28:13 +0000 http://flickerdown.com/?p=259#comment-123 I expect GPGPU functions to be integrated into both software and hardware.<br>Software at first specialised apps later into the OS, hardware more and more into southbridges/hybrid solution. Ye ole M$ is barking at the tree in this regard, but progress in this field has been so storming that GPGPU integration is only a small problem compared with the huge security risks that are caused by this massive increase in avaliable processing power; a workload that a CPU took years is reduced a weeks. Ie: bruteforcing strong MD5 hashes. [ now listening GSYBE - Static ] Imagine a marriage between rainbow and bruteforce at this level. It takes me seconds to bruteforce any MD5 hash of 8 or less characters/numbers.... If m$ KEEPS ON SLACKING they'll also miss this train as it streams into the cloud. I expect GPGPU functions to be integrated into both software and hardware.
Software at first specialised apps later into the OS, hardware more and more into southbridges/hybrid solution. Ye ole M$ is barking at the tree in this regard, but progress in this field has been so storming that GPGPU integration is only a small problem compared with the huge security risks that are caused by this massive increase in avaliable processing power; a workload that a CPU took years is reduced a weeks. Ie: bruteforcing strong MD5 hashes. [ now listening GSYBE - Static ] Imagine a marriage between rainbow and bruteforce at this level. It takes me seconds to bruteforce any MD5 hash of 8 or less characters/numbers…. If m$ KEEPS ON SLACKING they'll also miss this train as it streams into the cloud.

]]> By: dave_graham http://flickerdown.com/2008/11/future-storage-systems-part-6-gpu-accelerated-storage/comment-page-1/#comment-42 dave_graham Wed, 12 Nov 2008 12:44:37 +0000 http://flickerdown.com/?p=259#comment-42 Aryan,<br><br>thanks for the comments. When you look at the specialized workloads that GPGPUs can provide additional processing power, it's amazing that they haven't been integrated sooner. I downloaded an interesting whitepaper entitled "QP: A Heterogeneous Multi-Accelerator Cluster" done by the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign that really highlighted the strengths of using both foundational CPUs (OS and programmatic interface) as well as specialized GPGPUs for determined workloads. I think, based on what you've written above, that the encryption (data security) vertical is well suited to using these devices. From a storage perspective, encrypt/decrypt, deduplication (calculation and stream intensive), and even more complex parity workloads will benefit highly from GPGPUs.<br><br>Thanks again!<br><br>cheers,<br><br>Dave Graham Aryan,

thanks for the comments. When you look at the specialized workloads that GPGPUs can provide additional processing power, it's amazing that they haven't been integrated sooner. I downloaded an interesting whitepaper entitled “QP: A Heterogeneous Multi-Accelerator Cluster” done by the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign that really highlighted the strengths of using both foundational CPUs (OS and programmatic interface) as well as specialized GPGPUs for determined workloads. I think, based on what you've written above, that the encryption (data security) vertical is well suited to using these devices. From a storage perspective, encrypt/decrypt, deduplication (calculation and stream intensive), and even more complex parity workloads will benefit highly from GPGPUs.

Thanks again!

cheers,

Dave Graham

]]> By: Aryan http://flickerdown.com/2008/11/future-storage-systems-part-6-gpu-accelerated-storage/comment-page-1/#comment-41 Aryan Wed, 12 Nov 2008 11:28:13 +0000 http://flickerdown.com/?p=259#comment-41 I expect GPGPU functions to be integrated into both software and hardware.<br>Software at first specialised apps later into the OS, hardware more and more into southbridges/hybrid solution. Ye ole M$ is barking at the tree in this regard, but progress in this field has been so storming that GPGPU integration is only a small problem compared with the huge security risks that are caused by this massive increase in avaliable processing power; a workload that a CPU took years is reduced a weeks. Ie: bruteforcing strong MD5 hashes. [ now listening GSYBE - Static ] Imagine a marriage between rainbow and bruteforce at this level. It takes me seconds to bruteforce any MD5 hash of 8 or less characters/numbers.... If m$ KEEPS ON SLACKING they'll also miss this train as it streams into the cloud. I expect GPGPU functions to be integrated into both software and hardware.
Software at first specialised apps later into the OS, hardware more and more into southbridges/hybrid solution. Ye ole M$ is barking at the tree in this regard, but progress in this field has been so storming that GPGPU integration is only a small problem compared with the huge security risks that are caused by this massive increase in avaliable processing power; a workload that a CPU took years is reduced a weeks. Ie: bruteforcing strong MD5 hashes. [ now listening GSYBE - Static ] Imagine a marriage between rainbow and bruteforce at this level. It takes me seconds to bruteforce any MD5 hash of 8 or less characters/numbers…. If m$ KEEPS ON SLACKING they'll also miss this train as it streams into the cloud.

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