Preface: Dominating the IO500 Rankings Having seen the DAOS project dominating the IO500 rankings, I’ve been keeping an eye on this project (though not diving deep into it). Background In previous articles, I briefly introduced the DAOS distributed storage project. However, with Intel terminating the Optane business in 2022, many people began to wonder: Can DAOS continue after losing its “core hardware support”? Where is its future?
Short-term Impact, but Not the End The discontinuation of Optane did have a significant impact on DAOS, especially in metadata acceleration and persistence.