Flash Memory Summit: KTC40 NVMe-oF Target Controller From Kalray

At the Flash Memory Summit, Kalray, Inc. announced the KTC40, an NVMe-oF target controller.

Available in the fall of 2017, this solution will meet the data center industry’s growing need for efficient NVMe-oF/Ethernet JBOF (Just a Bunch Of Flash) solutions.

With the massive introduction of SSDs in storage servers, a new generation of high-performance, high-density JBOFs have become a necessity for small and large data centers. As such, the KTC40 target controller solution has been designed to enable JBOF optimization for hyperscale, enterprise and hyper-converged data centers. It will eliminate the need for costly and power hungry X86s and their associated DDR memory, reducing the cost of JBOFs by 65%, increasing SSD density within the JBOF by 60%, and yielding an overall reduction in power consumption of 65% ⁽¹⁾. KTC40 includes a PCIe board based on the company’s MPPA2 manycore processor, as well as a software stack.

Manycore processor

“We are excited to offer this unique solution to our data center customers,” said Eric Baissus, CEO, Kalray. “KTC40 will give our customers a new range of possibilities for optimizing their JBOF. This means increased SSD density, as well as big savings in both the cost of the JBOF itself and in terms of significant reductions in power consumption within the JBOF. We are confident that this will be a leading solution in the new era of Ethernet-compatible JBOFs.“

⁽¹⁾ Cost, density, and power calculations are based on a comparison with a typical JBOF including 2x Intel CPUs, 1×28 Go DDR4 and 2x40GB NICs. This reduction does not take SSD costs into account, which will vary depending on density.