PMC and Mellanox Demonstrate NVMe over RDMA and Peer-to-Peer Transactions Between RDMA and PCIe Devices
August 11 2015 - 8:00AM
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Solutions Featuring PMC’s Flashtec NVRAM Drive and Mellanox’s
RDMA Fabric Cards will be Shown at Flash Memory Summit
PMC-Sierra, Inc. (PMC®) (Nasdaq:PMCS), the semiconductor and
software solutions innovator transforming networks that connect,
move and store big data, and Mellanox® Technologies, Ltd.
(Nasdaq:MLNX), a leading supplier of end-to-end interconnect
solutions for servers and storage systems, today announced the
companies will showcase two breakthrough NVM Express™ (NVMe™)
solutions at Flash Memory Summit in booth #213, August 12-13, 2015,
at the Santa Clara Convention Center.
The companies announced a solution for peer-to-peer transactions
between RDMA-capable NICs and NVRAM drives to accelerate critical
data center applications by enabling direct memory transactions to
persistent memory across a low-latency fabric. DDR bus utilization
is becoming a bottleneck for many high-performance mission-critical
solutions. The combination of Mellanox PeerDirect RDMA and PMC
Flashtec™ NVRAM Drives enables peer-to-peer transactions directly
between PCIe® devices, freeing up the CPU and DDR bus. With
Flashtec NVRAM Drives and Mellanox’s RDMA capabilities, modern
scale-out distributed applications can protect their critical data
from power failures by writing directly to NVRAM across an
RDMA-capable network interface without compromising performance and
latency. See www.pmcs.com/lit for more information.
PMC and Mellanox also announced they will demonstrate NVMe over
RDMA leveraging the Flashtec NVRAM Drive’s NVMe interface and
Mellanox’s ConnectX-3 Pro network card. NVMe over RDMA enables
faster application response times and improved scalability across
virtual data centers by connecting remote subsystems with flash
appliances, eliminating the increased latency caused by SCSI
translation. See www.pmcs.com/lit for more information.
“With this latest enhancement to our PeerDirect software
library, customers can now integrate NVRAM into their applications
and use a low latency RDMA fabric to support a distributed
Persistent Memory Model, while offloading the memory subsystem and
CPU of the remote node,” said Michael Kagan, chief technology
officer, Mellanox. “Combining PMC’s NVMe and storage expertise with
Mellanox’s high-speed networking and RDMA capabilities is leading
to very significant advancements in how end users can benefit from
NVMe.”
“Maximizing the efficiency of the CPU and DDR bus is a major
concern for data center architects,” said Derek Dicker, vice
president of PMC’s Performance Solutions Group. “PMC’s Flashtec
products provide a direct link between the CPU and flash, and set
the bar for storage performance. These solutions with Mellanox are
yet another example of how NVMe can help data centers get the most
out of their assets and drive down latency.”
Mellanox Ethernet and InfiniBand interconnect solutions provide
the highest performance for solid state storage. Mellanox
ConnectX-3 Pro, ConnectX-4, and ConnectX-4 Lx InfiniBand and
Ethernet Adapters along with Spectrum switches and LinkX cables
deliver an end-to-end solution supporting low-latency storage
access and replication at 10, 25, 40, 50, 56, and 100Gb/s
speeds.
PMC Flashtec NVRAM Drives combine the speed and endurance of
DRAM with the persistency of NAND flash to deliver ten times higher
performance than the fastest Solid State Drive, at more than 10
million I/Os per second, with sub-microsecond latency. Leveraging
PCIe® 3.0, the Flashtec NVRAM Drives connect directly to the host
to optimize CPU utilization and maximize overall system
performance. They are based on the industry-standard NVMe interface
to enable plug-and-play PCIe connectivity. For more information,
visit www.pmcs.com/flashtec.
Availability
The NVRAM Peer-Direct solution consists of any RDMA-compliant
HCA from Mellanox and the PMC Flashtec NVRAM Drive. This is coupled
with Operating System driver code (currently supported on Linux),
as well as software from both Mellanox and PMC. All the code
required to enable this technology is available at
www.pmcs.com/lit.
Note to editors: PMC and Mellanox will demonstrate this
breakthrough technology in booth #213 at the Flash Memory Summit,
August 12-13, 2015, at the Santa Clara Convention Center.
About Mellanox
Mellanox Technologies is a leading supplier of end-to-end
InfiniBand and Ethernet interconnect solutions and services for
servers and storage. Mellanox interconnect solutions increase data
center efficiency by providing the highest throughput and lowest
latency, delivering data faster to applications and unlocking
system performance capability. Mellanox offers a choice of fast
interconnect products: adapters, switches, software, cables and
silicon that accelerate application runtime and maximize business
results for a wide range of markets including high-performance
computing, enterprise data centers, Web 2.0, cloud, storage and
financial services. More information is available at
www.mellanox.com.
About PMC
PMC (Nasdaq:PMCS) is the semiconductor and
software solutions innovator transforming networks that connect,
move and store big data. Building on a track record of technology
leadership, the company is driving innovation across storage,
optical and mobile networks. PMC’s highly integrated solutions
increase performance and enable next-generation services to
accelerate the network transformation. For more information, visit
www.pmcs.com. Follow PMC on our Blog, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn
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© Copyright PMC-Sierra, Inc. 2015. All rights reserved. PMC,
PMC-SIERRA, TACHYON and ADAPTEC are registered trademarks of
PMC-Sierra, Inc. in the United States and other countries, PMCS and
Flashtec are trademarks of PMC-Sierra, Inc. PMC disclaims any
ownership rights in other product and company names mentioned
herein. PMC is the corporate brand of PMC-Sierra, Inc. Mellanox and
ConnectX are registered trademarks of Mellanox Technologies, Ltd.
Mellanox Spectrum, PeerDirect, and LinkX are trademarks of Mellanox
Technologies, Ltd.
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