DRBD vs. NVIDIA Magnum IO vs. Python vs. pygame Comparison Chart

NVIDIA Magnum IO is the architecture for parallel, intelligent data center I/O. It maximizes storage, network, and multi-node, multi-GPU communications for the world’s most important applications, using large language models, recommender systems, imaging, simulation, and scientific research. Magnum IO utilizes storage I/O, network I/O, in-network compute, and I/O management to simplify and speed up data movement, access, and management for multi-GPU, multi-node systems. It supports NVIDIA CUDA-X libraries and makes the best use of a range of NVIDIA GPU and networking hardware topologies to achieve optimal throughput and low latency. In multi-GPU, multi-node systems, slow CPU, single-thread performance is in the critical path of data access from local or remote storage devices. With storage I/O acceleration, the GPU bypasses the CPU and system memory, and accesses remote storage via 8x 200 Gb/s NICs, achieving up to 1.6 TB/s of raw storage bandwidth.

Pygame is a set of Python modules designed for writing video games. Pygame adds functionality on top of the excellent SDL library. This allows you to create fully featured games and multimedia programs in the python language. Pygame is highly portable and runs on nearly every platform and operating system. Pygame is free. Released under the LGPL license, you can create open-source, freeware, shareware, and commercial games with it. With dual-core CPUs common, and 8-core CPUs cheaply available on desktop systems, making use of multi-core CPUs allows you to do more in your game. Selected pygame functions release the dreaded python GIL, which is something you can do from C code. Uses optimized C and assembly code for core functions. C code is often 10-20 times faster than python code, and assembly code can easily be 100x or more times faster than python code. Comes with many operating systems. Just an apt-get, emerge, pkg_add, or just install away.