CSPI Reseller of System Fabric Works

CSP Inc. (CSPI) MultiComputer division, a supplier
of commercially developed rugged embedded computers,
entered into a strategic reseller agreement with System Fabric Works, Inc. (SFW).

The agreement enables the CSPI MultiComputer division to resell System Fabric
Works storage appliances as part of its integrated performance
embedded computing system solutions.

"Because today’s intelligence,
surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) applications generate tremendous volumes
of sensor data, the need for massive storage devices capable of being accessed
in real-time for recording data has become critical to our customers,"
said Paul Martino, director of US sales, CSPI. "We are pleased to be able to offer these customers a technologically
advanced solution that makes it efficient, fast, and cost effective to manage
and store all that data."

CSPI platforms featuring Intel Xeon multicore processors and an IB fabric are
able to leverage SFW’s RDMA enabled storage
solutions that transfer data directly between user applications and the storage
device. The RDMA-enabled IB fabric facilitates terminating the transfer at the
application, avoiding an OS data copy in each direction of transfer, thus cutting latency, increasing performance, and reducing CPU
utilization.

CSPI’s TeraXP OpenVPX Embedded Servers and 4000 SERIES AdvancedTCA products
support the OpenFabrics Enterprise Distribution (OFED) on Red Hat Enterprise
Linux. The OFED stack contains the drivers, the OSs’ interfaces and the upper
level protocols that enable Linux to be RDMA storage initiator.

Available in 2U, 3U, and 5U enclosures, these storage appliances include an
integrated server, RAID disk array, RAID controller and network adapter.

"Under this collaboration CSPI is
able to offer their customers flexible configurations delivering low cost per
MB storage and up to wire speed performance on transfers across the IB fabric,"
said Roger Ronald, chief system architect, SFW.