FMS: Nallatech Demonstrated 250 Series of Accelerated NVMe Storage Solutions

Nallatech, a Molex, Inc. company, demonstrated the capabilities of the 250 series of accelerated NVMe storage solutions at Flash Memory Summit.

250-U2

On display at the event, the 250 series comprises three products all of which are shipping to lead customers and eco-system companies. These products adhere to PCIe and U.2 form factors allowing them to be integrated into data center infrastructure.

“The 250S+ is a NIC-sized near-storage accelerator featuring a Xilinx UltraScale+ FPGA. PCIe Gen 4-capable, the 250S+ can be added to PCIe or CAPI-enabled server platforms for applications including database acceleration, in-line compression/encryption, checkpoint restarting and burst buffer caching,” said Craig Petrie, VP, business development FPGA solutions, Nallatech. “Customers can leverage four M.2 NMVe SSDs coupled on-card to the FPGA, or instead break-out via OCuLink cables to allow the 250S+ to be part of a massively scaled storage array.“

“We’re pleased that Nallatech has selected the Xilinx Zynq UltraScale+ MPSoC as the processing core of the 250-SoC,” said Manish Muthal, VP, data center business, Xilinx, Inc. “Packaged in this way, the Zynq MPSoC allows customers to create remote, disaggregated storage solutions. Available as a turnkey solution featuring Xilinx’s NVMe-over-Fabric IP, the 250-SoC provides reliable transport of NVMe frames with low latency, high throughput, and massive scalability to remote hosts.“

The third of the company’s NVMe accelerator products is the 250-U2, a programmable accelerator featuring a Xilinx Kintex UltraScale+ FPGA and local DDR4 SDRAM memory.

“Eideticom is excited to be collaborating with Nallatech on our NoLoad storage and analytics FPGA acceleration platform,” said Roger Bertschmann, president and co-founder, Eideticom Communications, Inc. “Nallatech’s 250-U2 near-storage accelerator with U.2 industry standard form factor coupled with NoLoad’s NVM Express (NVMe) compatible interface provides a compelling solution for storage vendors. NoLoad’s high-throughput accelerator instances such as compression, erasure coding and search enables storage OEMs to efficiently process multi-gigabytes of data with unmatched performance.“

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2018.03.30 | Press Release