MILPITAS, Calif., Nov. 16, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- LSI Corporation
(NYSE: LSI) today introduced in the channel the LSI WarpDrive™
SLP-300 acceleration card, a PCI Express (PCIe®) card offering
performance up to 240,000 sustained IOPS and 300GB of SLC
solid-state storage capacity within a low profile form factor. The
WarpDrive card can help customers accelerate application
performance, reduce energy costs and eliminate racks of storage by
delivering the I/O performance of hundreds of hard disk drives
while consuming less than 25 watts of power.
"The LSI WarpDrive card sets a new standard for data center
efficiency by providing IT administrators with previously
unattainable levels of performance while helping to reduce
operational and capital expenditures," said Brent Blanchard, director of worldwide channel
sales and marketing, LSI. "The WarpDrive card complements the LSI
CacheCade™ and FastPath™ solid-state storage acceleration
solutions, providing our channel partners with a one-stop shop to
address the performance, deployment and integration requirements
that high-performance applications and dense computing demand."
The low-profile, half-length WarpDrive card plugs into a
standard 8 lane PCIe Gen 2.0 server slot and is designed to deliver
high performance with low latency and a low CPU burden independent
of main memory size. It offers system builders, system integrators
and their end customers a cost-effective, plug-and-play solution
for maximizing the transactional I/O performance of applications
such as Web serving, data warehousing, data mining, professional
video and high-performance computing.
A WarpDrive card can sustain up to 1,400MB/s of throughput, with
reliable and consistent performance across both sequential and
random reads and writes. It delivers up to 240,000 4K read IOPS and
up to 200,000 4K write IOPS, with access latency of less than 50
microseconds. To achieve equal performance on a write IOPS basis
utilizing hard disk drives would require over 400 drives, 36U of
rack space and consume more than 300 times the power.
"The LSI PCIe-based WarpDrive card offers simple, effective, and
affordable application acceleration for enterprise servers," said
Bob Farkaly, director of marketing,
Storage System products for Exar. "Utilizing two WarpDrive cards
combined with Exar's BitWackr™ solution, we measured an aggregate
performance of 1,028 MB/second, which is almost twice the speed we
were able to achieve with other PCIe-based flash products."
"Schooner's MySQL and NoSQL solutions combined with the LSI
WarpDrive card provide industry-leading performance for
database and key-value stores, delivering over 9x
performance throughput increase relative to hard drive
configurations and over 3x performance throughput increase relative
to alternative PCIe flash-based solutions," said Dr. John Busch, founder and CTO, Schooner
Information Technologies. "Beyond raw IOPS and latency performance,
we are very impressed with the LSI WarpDrive card's performance
stability, observing negligible performance variance over time.
Also, the LSI WarpDrive card's very low overhead consumption of
server processor and DRAM memory resources enables even higher
performance by leaving these resources available for useful
application processing and data caching."
The WarpDrive card utilizes industry-standard and widely
deployed LSI SAS software drivers to provide channel partners with
simple integration and management using existing SAS
infrastructure. It features the LSISAS2008 6Gb/s SAS I/O controller
and is based on the enterprise-proven LSI Fusion-MPT™ architecture.
The WarpDrive card is bootable, has no external power requirement
and installs as a single drive with no user configuration required.
The WarpDrive card helps to ensure high reliability with a
management infrastructure offering extensive monitoring, including
health, error rate and drive failure.
The WarpDrive card builds upon LSI enterprise-level experience
in the design, manufacture and support of advanced server and
storage solutions. The WarpDrive card is designed to provide system
integrators and system builders with a robust and stable solution
with assured interoperability and a low-risk path to market. The
WarpDrive card also helps to minimize hardware requirements,
reducing initial investment costs and eliminating points of failure
for greater overall system reliability.
Pricing(1) and availability
LSI WarpDrive SLP-300: $11,500
The WarpDrive acceleration card extends the comprehensive LSI
portfolio of storage building block solutions available in the
channel, including MegaRAID® and 3ware® RAID controllers, host bus
adapters, SAS Switches, JBOD enclosures, the CTS2600 family of
configurable storage components and advanced software options.
The LSI WarpDrive card will be available beginning November 29 through the LSI worldwide network of
distributors, system integrators, system builders and VARs.
Additional information is available in an online press kit
(www.lsi.com/presskit) and at www.lsi.com/channel.
About LSI
LSI Corporation (NYSE: LSI) is a leading provider of innovative
silicon, systems and software technologies that enable products
which seamlessly bring people, information and digital content
together. The company offers a broad portfolio of capabilities and
services including custom and standard product ICs, adapters,
systems and software that are trusted by the world's best known
brands to power leading solutions in the Storage and Networking
markets. More information is available at www.lsi.com.
(1) Estimated MSRP. Actual prices may vary.
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