FMS: Eideticom and Nallatech Together for NoLoad NVM Express U.2 Computational Storage Platform

Eideticom Communications, Inc., and Nallatech, a Molex, Inc.‘s company, announced the NoLoad NVM Express (NVMe) U.2 computational storage acceleration platform based on Xilinx, Inc.‘s technology.

NoLoad 250-U2 is a storage industry’s first NVMe compatible scale-out accelerator in a U.2 form factor and utilizes energy-efficient FPGAs from Xilinx deployed on the 250-U2 hardware platform provided by Nallatech

Eideticom, Xilinx and Nallatech have partnered to demonstrate the NoLoad 250-U2 performing high throughput data compression on a peer-to-peer (P2P) capable storage serve at FMS 2018. The demonstration showcased the ability of NoLoad-enabled Xilinx FPGA devices to perform computationally challenging algorithms and perform high-throughput data movement with minimal impact on host CPU resources.

P2P enables the direct transfer of data between PCIe devices without the use of host CPU memory and results in improved latency, system throughput, CPU overhead and energy usage. The NoLoad platform is specifically architected for P2P operation and uses an NVMe standards complaint Controller Memory Buffer (CMB) to accomplish the P2P data transfers. NoLoad provides zlib compliant compression/decompression and achieves over 3GB/s performance in a standard U.2 PCIe Gen3x4 form factor.

“Leveraging the NVMe protocol to perform storage and analytics functions allows our NoLoad to seamlessly deploy in next-generation storage and compute servers. The peer-to-peer functionality provided by NVMe offloads the CPU and allows it to focus on more application-critical tasks. In hyper-converged scenarios the P2P provides a much higher QoS to the VMs running on the CPU leading to a better user experience,” said Stephen Bates, CTO, Eideticom.

“Xilinx is excited that our adaptable UltraScale+ FPGAs are powering Eideticom’s NoLoad 250-U2 Computational Storage product,” said Manish Muthal, VP, data center business, Xilinx. “Our technology combined with the unique capabilities of the NoLoad NVMe U.2 computational storage platform enables the rapid deployment of customized acceleration for emerging storage, data center and high-performance computing workloads.“

“The combination of Nallatech’s 250-U2 Accelerated Storage Solution and Eideticom’s NoLoad is a powerful platform for storage, data center and high-performance computing customers.” said Craig Petrie, VP, business development FPGA solutions, Nallatech.”The ability to accelerate common functions such as erasure coding, deduplication, encryption and compression in a storage compatible U.2 form factor provides a compelling solution for data center workloads.“