FMS: One Stop Systems FSA4000 End-to-end PCIe Gen 4 Storage Solution

One Stop Systems, Inc. (OSS) unveiled its end-to-end PCIe Gen 4 storage solution, FSA4000, at FMS.

The FSA4000 data acquisition and storage appliance is capable of delivering up to 56GB/s data transfer speed. The appliance utilizes Liqid, Inc.‘s LQD4500 PCIe Gen 4 NVMe Add-in-Card (AIC) with capacity up to 32TB per card. Codenamed ‘Honey Badger’ for its Gen 4 performance, the card provides a PCIe Gen 4 x16 interface that can deliver up to 5 million IO/s.

It combines Gen 4 servers and Liqid’s Gen 4 NVMe SSDs to achieve 56GB/s storage throughput, doubling the performance of current PCIe Gen 3-based systems.

“OSS is committed to providing our customers with access to the latest high-performance technology they need to address their mission critical applications,” said Steve Cooper, CEO, OSS. “Working with Liqid, we are able to lead the market transition to PCIe Gen 4 by delivering flexible scale-out storage systems with a valued technology partner.“

The company’s PCIe Gen 4 expansion platforms extend the capability of Gen 4 servers by providing scale-out multi-GPU AI training engines, AI inferencing engines, NVMe-based data acquisition and fast storage subsystems – all integral components of AI on the Flyedge appliances. AI on the Fly appliances based on OSS Gen 4 expansion technology bring datacenter AI capabilities to autonomous vehicles, military, aerospace, medical, and media/entertainment applications.

According  Sumit Puri, CEO and co-founder, Liqid: “Gen 4 PCIe is unlocking opportunities in business, government and research that were simply impossible with previous interfaces, unleashing the raw data throughput required by next generation workloads. Combined with Gen 4 servers and OSS technologies, we are able to demonstrate today the amazing performance of our x16 PCIe Gen 4 Honey Badger AIC, and the tremendous value the new FSA4000 storage solutions delivers to AI deployments.“

The entire FSA4000 solution includes a 1U, Gen 4 server and an 4UV PCIe Gen 4 scale-out expansion system with up to 16 LQD4500 NVMe cards. The expansion system directly attaches to the server with two  PCIe x16 Gen 4 links providing 512Gb bandwidth. In 5U, it provides up to 512TB capacity.

The FSA storage family includes the FSA4001 JBOF, FSA4005 Ion Accelerator SAN and FSA4010 data recorder with the company’s FSA data recording software options.

Customers can order PCIe Gen 4 solutions from the company.

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