SC19: Kalray and 2CRSi Join Forces to Demo Composability

Kalray Corporation, and 2CRSi are leveraging their mutual technology and expertise to build composable and scalable server appliances.

Combined expertise for real synergy
Kalray’s reconfigurable acceleration solutions provide the opportunity for 2CRSi to expand its offer for the diversified enterprise datacenter market, including SMBs.

There is a demanding need for flexibility, computing performance and fast integration, requiring easy to deploy reconfigurable solutions. With its architecture, Kalray’s programmable acceleration cards based on MPPA (Massively Parallel Processor Array) can run real-time and compute-intensive applications on the same card and be reconfigured during its lifetime in the field. Through this collaboration, 2CRSi is strengthening its strategy to rapidly build tailor-made performance computing solutions for domains such as video surveillance, defect detection, finance algorithm optimization, AI.

Konic PCIe card

One single card – Multiple configurations
Kalray’s MPPA many core processor is making the Konic PCIe cards programmable and reconfigurable, supporting addition, removal, or modification of optimized software modules as required during the lifetime of the card. Such module reconfiguration could include a mix of AI engines, application acceleration or protocol stacks. Using a standard and open programmable development environment, this brings composability and flexibility to system integrators such as 2CRSi.

Alain Wilmouth, CEO, 2CRSi, explained: “2CRSi is always eager to develop innovative technology and provide state-of-the-art solutions. We are very excited to leverage Kalray’s technology. Starting with this demonstration at SC19, we want to further explore what composable and flexible solutions can be built to satisfy our customers. ultimately resulting in an optimized TCO.“

Éric Baissus, CEO, Kalray, commented: “2CRSi is one the most innovative solution providers delivering best in class server solutions in terms of cost, compute and power consumption. We are glad to contribute to 2CRSi’s offering with our KONIC reconfigurable cards and to enable 2CRSi to rapidly build the best solutions for their customers.“

The two companies showcased 3 different software configurations of the same Konic reconfigurable PCIe card integrated into a dual-x86 server built by 2CRSi:

• Multiple and heterogenous AI Inference engines (Multi-CNN);

• Flexible multi-acceleration – Example of Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) acceleration;

• Performance storage disaggregation using Kalray’s Target Controller (KTC) for low latency access to high density Just a Bunch of Flash.