blockNDP

Antonio Barbalace, Martin Děcký, Javier Picorel, Pramod Bhatotia

202022 citationsDOI

Abstract

We introduce blockNDP, a set of hardware and software protocol and interface extensions to enable block-oriented near data processing (NDP) within emerging solid-state drives (SSDs) integrating processing units. blockNDP is an end-to-end architecture, including a programming model and framework for host and in-storage compute units. blockNDP is the first proposal to be generic, backward compatible - supports existent standards and file systems, portable, and language agnostic. [email protected] have implemented and evaluated the effectiveness of blockNDP using two full-system prototypes; one on a new NDP emulation platform - developed atop QEMU, and another on an actual development board - the OpenSSD. Our experimental evaluation demonstrates that blockNDP is not only feasible with a modest effort, < 10K LoC, but it is also able to achieve up to 4× speedups, despite wimpy CPU cores, on a real-world data-driven application such as MySQL.

Topics & Concepts

Computer scienceEmulationOperating systemBlock (permutation group theory)SoftwareEmbedded systemInterface (matter)Protocol (science)Application programming interfaceSet (abstract data type)Computer architectureProgramming languageMedicineAlternative medicineEconomic growthGeometryBubblePathologyEconomicsMaximum bubble pressure methodMathematicsAdvanced Data Storage TechnologiesCaching and Content DeliveryParallel Computing and Optimization Techniques