Intelligent Cache Acceleration Software
智能高速缓存加速软件
Cache acceleration software (CAS) enables the implementation of media aware storage architectures through intelligent storage caching that effectively combines a layer of fast media and a lower-cost storage pool to deliver affordable, high performance storage.
缓存加速软件(CAS)通过智能存储缓存,有效地将快速介质层和低成本存储池结合起来,提供经济实惠的高性能存储,从而实现介质感知存储架构。
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.
当今的数据中心由于存储 I/O 无法满足不断增长的需求,导致系统无法充分发挥其性能潜力。传统的解决方案,如增加存储、服务器或内存,会增加巨大的开支和复杂性。
Cache acceleration software was designed to use a relatively small capacity of very fast media, such as Intel® Optane™ SSDs, to modernize data center environments and accelerate storage performance.
高速缓存加速软件旨在使用容量相对较小的高速介质(如英特尔® Optane™ 固态硬盘)来更新数据中心环境并加速存储性能。
Storage I/O can be balanced with other system components, so resources are utilized more effectively. CAS has a variety of customizable options that go beyond caching the most recently accessed I/O:
存储 I/O 可与其他系统组件平衡,从而更有效地利用资源。CAS 除了缓存最近访问的 I/O 外,还有多种可定制的选项:
- Intelligent caching with workload stratification into file and I/O classification
智能缓存将工作负载分为文件和 I/O 两类 - Multiple cache modes to accelerate reads vs writes
多种高速缓存模式,可加快读写速度 - Available enterprise validation and support
可用的企业验证和支持 - No application changes required
无需更改应用程序 - Flexible cache line sizes
灵活的高速缓存行大小
Several implementations of CAS exist:
CAS 有几种实现方式:
- Open CAS: An open source version available on GitHub so developers can incorporate CAS into their desired storage solution
开放式 CAS:GitHub 上提供的开源版本,开发人员可将 CAS 纳入其所需的存储解决方案中 - Intel® VROC Integrated Caching: An enterprise-supported and validated version of Open CAS delivered with Intel® VROC
英特尔® VROC 集成缓存:通过英特尔® VROC 提供的企业级支持和验证版本的 Open CAS - Intel® CAS for Windows: An Intel productized version available for Windows users
英特尔® CAS for Windows:面向 Windows 用户的英特尔产品化版本
Optimized for Intel® Optane™ SSDs
针对英特尔® Optane™ 固态硬盘进行了优化
Intel® Optane™ SSDs can accelerate applications, reduce transaction costs, and improve overall data center TCO when absorbed into storage architectures via cache acceleration software.
英特尔® 欧普蓝™ 固态硬盘通过高速缓存加速软件融入存储架构后,可以加速应用,降低交易成本,提高数据中心的总体拥有成本。
Ideal for Improving Storage Performance
提高存储性能的理想选择
- High endurance
高耐力 - Balanced Read/WriteHigh performance
读写平衡高性能 - High bandwidth
高带宽 - Low latency
低延迟 - No write amplification
无写入放大 - Similar capacities to traditional SSDs
容量与传统固态硬盘相似
Case Studies
案例研究
- SolidWorks CAD: Boost and enhance SolidWorks performance for engineering design workloads
SolidWorks CAD:提升和增强 SolidWorks 性能,以适应工程设计工作负载 - 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
Intel® Virtual RAID on CPU Integrated Caching (Intel® VROC IC)
Intel® Virtual RAID on CPU (Intel® VROC), Intel’s enterprise integrated RAID solution for Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors, is adding support for intelligent integrated caching.
Built on Open CAS
RAID + caching = redundancy + performance
Enterprise supported and validated
Flexible usage models
Eliminates single points of failure
Delivered through participating server vendors as a feature of the platform
Pre-validated solution vetted and documented by Intel for easy installation

Open Cache Acceleration Software (Open CAS)
Open CAS Linux is an open source project that can accelerate your I/O-bound business applications that relay on slower SAN or direct attached back-end storage.
Why use Open CAS?
- Categorize I/O by block size, file, directory/path, or metadata for flexible cache tuning
- Update all servers at once without stopping I/O
- Increasing cache line size decreases memory footprint
- Flexible framework with kernel modules and wrappers to port CAS into desired storage stack
Support
Basic Open CAS support included when using an Intel® Optane™ SSD
Intel® CAS for Windows
For customers using Microsoft Windows, Intel provides a caching engine called Intel CAS that is still available for use and accessible below for download.
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- Intel® CAS for Windows (client or server OS support)
- Support provided for use with SSDs based on Intel® Optane™ technology only. Contact Intel Customer Support to open a support ticket.
- Use with other block devices (including Intel NAND SSDs) is unsupported, but functional.