Re: [zfs-discuss] GPU acceleration of ZFS

2011-05-10 Thread Chris Ridd
On 10 May 2011, at 16:44, Hung-Sheng Tsao (LaoTsao) Ph. D. wrote: > > IMHO, zfs need to run in all kind of HW > T-series CMT server that can help sha calculation since T1 day, did not see > any work in ZFS to take advantage it That support would be in the crypto framework though, not ZFS per s

Re: [zfs-discuss] GPU acceleration of ZFS

2011-05-10 Thread C Bergström
On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 10:29 PM, Anatoly wrote: > Good day, > > I think ZFS can take advantage of using GPU for sha256 calculation, > encryption and maybe compression. Modern video card, like 5xxx or 6xxx ATI > HD Series can do calculation of sha256 50-100 times faster than modern 4 > cores CPU.

Re: [zfs-discuss] GPU acceleration of ZFS

2011-05-10 Thread Hung-Sheng Tsao (LaoTsao) Ph. D.
IMHO, zfs need to run in all kind of HW T-series CMT server that can help sha calculation since T1 day, did not see any work in ZFS to take advantage it On 5/10/2011 11:29 AM, Anatoly wrote: Good day, I think ZFS can take advantage of using GPU for sha256 calculation, encryption and maybe

Re: [zfs-discuss] GPU acceleration of ZFS

2011-05-10 Thread Krunal Desai
On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 11:29 AM, Anatoly wrote: > Good day, > > I think ZFS can take advantage of using GPU for sha256 calculation, > encryption and maybe compression. Modern video card, like 5xxx or 6xxx ATI > HD Series can do calculation of sha256 50-100 times faster than modern 4 > cores CPU.

[zfs-discuss] GPU acceleration of ZFS

2011-05-10 Thread Anatoly
Good day, I think ZFS can take advantage of using GPU for sha256 calculation, encryption and maybe compression. Modern video card, like 5xxx or 6xxx ATI HD Series can do calculation of sha256 50-100 times faster than modern 4 cores CPU. kgpu project for linux shows nice results. 'zfs scrub'