• Pioneering Hardware-Accelerated ZFS to Improve Throughput, Efficiency, and Scalability in HPC Storage

MaxLinear, Inc. (NASDAQ:MXL), a leading provider of high-performance storage accelerator SoCs, and Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) today announced a collaboration to enable hardware-accelerated OpenZFS File System storage for large scale, high-performance computing (HPC) environments.

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MaxLinear and Los Alamos National Laboratory collaborate on hardware-accelerated OpenZFS storage using Panther™ Storage Accelerator SoCs for HPC environments.

Los Alamos National Laboratory and MaxLinear have jointly developed a hardware-accelerated OpenZFS storage architecture designed to improve performance and storage capacity for next-generation NVMe flash-based storage infrastructure.

"Los Alamos' Direct I/O support and Z.I.A. (ZFS Interface for Accelerators) work were developed to accelerate performance for the ZFS-using community," said Gary Grider, Senior Director for Computing Technologies at the Laboratory. "In this collaboration, MaxLinear demonstrated hardware-offloaded ZFS operations with reported speedups of approximately 39x for writes and 7x for reads. These results illustrate the potential for accelerator-based approaches to reduce host CPU involvement while maintaining the data-protection benefits associated with ZFS."