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Mar 21, 2021 · Industry Insights

How IBM Spectrum Scale 5.0 Boosts HPC Small‑File I/O for AI/ML Workloads

The article analyzes IBM Spectrum Scale 5.0's new features—RDMA support, lock‑free reads, multi‑layer NVMe write cache, and variable SubBlock sizes—and demonstrates how they enable a next‑generation HPC supercomputer to meet demanding AI/ML/DL small‑file and large‑file I/O performance targets, with benchmark results showing up to 700% improvement.