Smart Modular Shipping nvNITRO Accelerator Card Featuring MRAM Technology
Supports 1.5million IO/s and 6μs latency based on 4K random R/W.
This is a Press Release edited by StorageNewsletter.com on May 17, 2018 at 2:03 pmSMART Modular Technologies, Inc., a subsidiary of SMART Global Holdings, Inc., announced that it has begun shipping its nvNITRO accelerator card featuring MRAM technology.
The company has partnered with Everspin Technologies, Inc., developer and manufacturer of discrete and embedded magnetoresistive random access memory (MRAM), to launch the Spin-transfer Torque MRAM (STT-MRAM)-based nvNITRO accelerator card. The nvNITRO is for the most demanding transaction logging applications and, along with enhanced performance features, is designed with plug-and-play capability requiring no changes to system hardware, memory reference, bios or file systems.
MRAM technology is byte-addressable and persistent with low latency, enabling improved system performance for many applications. The nvNITRO accelerator card exploits these attributes to provide a solution for industries where transaction processing and data recording performance are critical. For example, it can reduce financial application wait times by reducing latency up to 90% over enterprise SSDs. Based on this performance data, the company and Everspin will jointly target customers in the financial sector including joint demonstrations of nvNITRO performance at The Trading Show in Chicago, IL, May 9-10.
The nvNITRO card enables a system application to write or log large amounts of data at the full performance of incoming data and provides low and highly consistent read latencies of under 10µs. This enables a customer to utilize a single nvNITRO card as a front end cache connected to less expensive backend storage devices, providing a cost effective solution for logging information and accessing terabytes of data at high performance, while providing power loss protection for data. No super capacitors, UPS or batteries are required because nvNITRO is power fail safe through its use of STT-MRAM persistent memory technology.
The nvNITRO accelerator card is available in a half-height half-length (HHHL) PCIe Gen3 form factor which is NVM Express 1.2.1 compliant. Available in a 1GB density, the card supports greater than 1.5 million IO/s and approximately 6μs latency based on 4K random R/W. Evaluation samples are available and can be obtained by the firm.
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