Open Cache Acceleration Software (Open CAS)
Improve Application Performance with Open Cache Acceleration Software (Open CAS)
Today's data centers are held back by storage I/O that cannot keep up with ever-increasing demand, preventing systems from reaching their full performance potential. Traditional solutions, such as increasing storage, servers, or memory, add huge expense and complexity.
Open Cache Acceleration Software (Open CAS), combined with high-performance Solid State Drives (SSDs), increases data center performance via intelligent caching rather than extreme spending. Open CAS interoperates with server memory to create a multilevel cache that optimizes the use of system memory and automatically determines the best cache level for active data, allowing applications to perform even faster than running fully on flash/SSDs.1
Open CAS is a project derived from the product Intel® Cache Acceleration Software (Intel® CAS). For Linux use cases, all usage has transition to Open CAS, but the data and use cases proven using Intel® CAS are still relevant. Intel still provides Intel® CAS for Windows.
Accelerate Your Scale-Out Storage Performance
Yahoo needed a faster, lower cost way to process hot data for 1 billion users a day. They got it by deploying Intel® Cache Acceleration Software (CAS) 3.0 on the Intel® SSD data center family for PCIe* in their existing Ceph* environment.
Experience Open CAS
Whether you are using VMs or dedicated servers, you will quickly see how Open CAS server-side caching software plus any flash device ((SAS, SATA, or PCIe*) can accelerate your I/O-bound business applications relaying on slower SAN or direct attached back-end storage. Want to learn more? Get involved with the Open CAS community!
Get started at: https://open-cas.github.io/index.html
Dive in with other storage enthusiasts at: https://github.com/open-cas/ocf
Using Windows? Intel still provides a validated and supported caching engine called Intel® CAS that is still available for use. See below for usage options:
Free when used with an Intel® SSD
Try (120 day free trial)
Buy
More Information
Solution Briefs and White Papers
- Intel® Cache Acceleration Software (Intel® CAS) vs. HDDs
- Boost MySQL* 8 database performance
- IKEA Communications AB: Cost-effective drop-in solution for workflow bottleneck
- Oil Search: Intel and XENON help Oil Search dig deeper into sub-surface oil and gas analysis
- Yahoo!: Yahoo! accelerates scale-out storage performance with Intel® CAS 3.0
- Apache Hadoop*: Decoupling storage from compute in Apache Hadoop* with Ceph*
- Red Hat Ceph* storage and Intel® CAS
- Breakthrough performance with SUSE* enterprise storage, Intel® CAS and Intel® SSD Data Center Family
- Swift: Accelerating Swift* with intelligent SSD caching
- Swift: Accelerating Swift* with Intel® CAS
- Hyper-V: Improve Hyper-V performance 36x with Intel® CAS and one Intel® SSD DC P3700 Series
- Yokogawa Medical Solution: Using Intel® SSD and Intel® CAS to accelerate medical image display
- Oracle: Improve performance and reduce support costs
Case Studies and Technology Briefs
- SolidWorks CAD: Boost and enhance SolidWorks performance for engineering design workloads
- Using NVM Express*-based Intel® SSD boot drive as a caching device
- Intel® CAS accelerates QEMU*
- Boost storage performance using Intel® Optane™ SSDs and Intel® QLC SSDs
- Intel® technologies unlock Apache Hadoop* bottlenecks
Product and Performance Information
1
Tests document performance of components on a particular test, in specific systems. Differences in hardware, software, or configuration will affect actual performance. Consult other sources of information to evaluate performance.
System Configuration: Sysbench Database Testing: Intel® Cache Acceleration Software (Intel® CAS) for Linux* v2.7.0, Intel® Xeon® E5-2680 processor @ 2.70GHz x2, CentOS* 6.5 kernel, 3.10.24, 32GB RAM, 50% of database cached, Intel® Solid State Drive DC P37000 Series 400GB, Sysbench v0.4.12 (16 threads, max request=1000).
System Configuration: Microsoft Hyper-V* Virtualization: Intel® Cache Acceleration Software (Intel® CAS) for Windows* v2.7.0, Intel® Xeon® E5-2670 processor @ 2.60GHz, Microsoft Windows* Server 2012 R2, 128GB RAM, Intel® SSD DC P3700 Series 400GB, 8x SAS RAID 5 as main storage.
For more information go to http://www.intel.com/performance.