NGD Systems Unveils Catalina-2 U.2 NVMe SSD at 16TB

NGD Systems, Inc. announced the availability of the 16TB Catalina-2 U.2 NVMe SSD.

It also makes available the company’s ‘In-Situ Processing’ capabilities. It does this without impact to the reliability, QoS or power consumption, already available in the current shipping the firm’s products.

The use of ARM Ltd.‘ multi-core processors in Catalina-2 provides users with a well-understood development environment and the combination of performance with low power consumption. The ARM-based In-Situ processing platform allows the company to pack both high capacity and computational ability into the 16TB 2.5-inch form factor package on the market. The NGD Catalina-2 U.2 NVMe SSD consumes 12W (0.75W/TB) of power, compared to the 25W or more used by other NVMe solutions.

“With the exponential growth of big data, AI/ML, and IoT, more processing power and storage is required at the edge,” said Neil Werdmuller, director, storage solutions, ARM. “By including multiple Arm cores into its SSDs, NGD Systems delivers the computation required at the edge and the ability to scale processing in step with storage growth. This is achieved within a very tight power budget and without adding expensive additional processors, memory or GPUs.“

The 16TB Catalina-2 permits large data sets, near real-time analytics, high-density, and low cost to coexist. A single standard 2U server available with 48 hot-swappable U.2 bays can reach 768TB, over three-quarters of a petabyte. The In-Situ SSDs augment the server processing power with the availability of the embedded 64-bit ARM application processors. The firm demonstrated the value of computational storage with over 500x improvement in a 3M vector similarity search at the Open Compute Project (OCP) Summit last month in San Jose, CA

“AI, machine learning, and computer vision applications are all restricted by today’s traditional storage technology,” said Eli Tiomkin, VP, business development, NGD Systems. “The NGD Systems In-Situ Processing capabilities embedded in the world’s first 16TB U.2 In-Situ SSD allows our customers to deal with data sets in a manner that truly enables AI at the Edge.“

The Catalina-2 U.2 is in production and available in capacities of 4, 8, and 16TB NVMe computational storage product.

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2017.02.23 | Press Release | [with our comments]