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Benchmarking IBM eXFlash™ DIMM with sysbench fileio

Diablo Technologies engaged Percona to benchmark IBM eXFlash™ DIMMs in various aspects. An eXFlash™ DIMM itself is quite an interesting piece of technology. In a nutshell, it’s flash storage, which you can put in the memory DIMM slots. Enabled by Diablo’s Memory Channel Storage™ technology, this practically means low latency and some unique performance characteristics.

These devices are special, because their full performance potential is unlocked by using multiple devices to leverage the parallelism of the memory subsystem. In a modern CPU there is more than one memory controller (4 is typical nowadays) and spreading eXFlash™ DIMMs across them will provide maximum performance. There are quite some details about the device that are omitted in this post, they can be found in this redbook.

Diablo technologies also provided us a …

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