Fully customizable and scalable SmartSSD
computational storage platform moves compute closer to storage for
accelerated data processing speed and efficiency
Xilinx, Inc. (NASDAQ: XLNX) and Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
today announced the availability of the Samsung SmartSSD®
Computational Storage Drive (CSD). Powered by Xilinx® FPGAs, the
SmartSSD CSD is the industry’s first adaptable computational
storage platform providing the performance, customization, and
scalability required by data-intensive applications.
Xilinx will showcase the SmartSSD CSD and partner solutions at
the Flash Memory Summit Virtual Conference and Expo taking place
November 10-12.
The SmartSSD CSD is a flexible, programmable storage platform
that developers can use to create a variety of unique and scalable
accelerators that solve a broad range of data center problems. It
empowers a new breed of software developers to easily build
innovative hardware-accelerated solutions in familiar high-level
languages. The SmartSSD CSD accelerates data processing performance
by 10x or more for applications such as database management, video
processing, artificial intelligence layers, complex search, and
virtualization.
“Processing data efficiently is the key to unlocking its value,”
said Pej Roshan, vice president of marketing, Data Center Group at
Xilinx. “The SmartSSD computational storage drive empowers a broad
new range of developers to harness the benefits of computational
storage and quickly deliver compelling applications to solve a host
of thorny data center challenges. From transparent compression to
next-gen AI inferencing acceleration, the range of functions
performed on the SmartSSD CSD is limited only by a developer’s
imagination.”
“The industry is beginning to realize just how much the SmartSSD
CSD will be able to boost performance in the datacenter and far
beyond, and with the latest Xilinx tools for application
development we anticipate dramatic growth in a wealth of
acceleration applications,” said Jim Elliott, corporate senior vice
president of Memory Sales and Marketing at Samsung Semiconductor,
Inc.
Incorporating a Xilinx FPGA accelerator, the SmartSSD CSD pushes
high-speed computation closer to where the data lives, bypassing
server CPU limits. The reduced data movement lowers latency and
power consumption for accelerated data processing speed and
efficiency. The SmartSSD CSD allows enterprises to keep up with
user demand for faster access to data without being forced to
purchase more servers, driving up CAPEX and OPEX. Additionally,
host CPU resources are freed up to handle other higher-level tasks
more efficiently.
The Xilinx Adaptable Platform
The SmartSSD CSD platform is designed to enable the easy
creation of custom applications by harnessing the Vitis™ unified
software platform and accelerated libraries. Both developers and
enterprise appliance vendors can quickly go-to-market with
pre-built customized applications. Runtimes, libraries, APIs, and
drivers can be built into the system using common high-level
languages such as C, C++ and OpenCL.
In addition, Xilinx has launched a high-performance,
easy-to-deploy data encryption solution built on dm-crypt. By
leveraging standard Linux kernel modules, SmartSSD CSD developers
can utilize Vitis libraries to create turnkey acceleration
applications that scale effortlessly across multiple SmartSSD
CSDs.
Turnkey Accelerated Applications
Xilinx ecosystem partners have developed a compelling range of
turnkey accelerated applications that deliver accelerated data
processing for services like big data analytics, video transcoding
and search-in-storage.
Representative accelerated solutions, include:
- Big data/data analytics – SmartSSD CSD with Bigstream’s
hyperacceleration layer allows customers to increase
time-to-insight by up to 10x on the Apache Spark unified analytics
engine for big data.
- Search-in-storage – Lewis Rhodes Labs (LRL) applies
novel neuromorphic processing with the SmartSSD CSD to find
“needle-in-a-haystack” data from large data lakes by searching
petabytes in minutes. LRL’s deterministic processing accelerates
queries up to 100x faster than other solutions.
- Video file transcoding – CTAccel’s pre-built SmartSSD
CSD solution performs high performance image processing that
improves server throughput and latency while reducing up to 60
percent of video transcoding costs.
- Transparent compression – Eideticom’s NoLoad NVMe CSD
enables up to 10x more storage capacity, increased line-rate
compression performance, improved CPU utilization, and reduced
memory bandwidth pressure.
Drive Specifications and Availability
The SmartSSD CSD is a standard 2.5-inch (U.2) form factor solid
state drive in a low 25-Watt power envelope. It offers a physical
storage capacity of 4TBs, with the ability to hold up to 12TBs of
data or more when combined with accelerated transparent
compression. The integrated Xilinx Kintex® UltraScale+™ FPGA
accelerator features more than one million system logic cells and
nearly 2,000 DSP (digital signal processing) slices for hardware
acceleration.
SmartSSD CSDs are available for pre-order today and will begin
shipping with general availability in January through Xilinx and
its authorized distributors, by agreement with Samsung. For more
information visit www.xilinx.com/smartssd.
Flash Memory Summit 2020
Xilinx will showcase the SmartSSD CSD and accelerated solutions
with partners in virtual booth 105. Additionally, Gopi Jandhyala,
vice president of engineering, Data Center Group at Xilinx, will
present a keynote address titled, “The Future Adaptable Data
Center” on November 11 at 11:35 a.m. Pacific Time. To attend the
event, visit https://flashmemorysummit.com/.
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About Xilinx
Xilinx, Inc. develops highly flexible and adaptive processing
platforms that enable rapid innovation across a variety of
technologies - from the cloud, to the edge, to the endpoint. Xilinx
is the inventor of the FPGA and Adaptive SoCs (including our
Adaptive Compute Acceleration Platform, or ACAP), designed to
deliver the most dynamic computing technology in the industry. We
collaborate with our customers to create scalable, differentiated
and intelligent solutions that enable the adaptable, intelligent
and connected world of the future. For more information, visit
Xilinx.com.
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