Inspur and Samsung Joint Open Storage Solution

The annual OCP Global Summit returned to the San Jose Convention Center on November 9 and 10.

The Open Compute Project, in its 10^th year, is a collaborative community that combines the knowledge of executives, engineers, developers, and suppliers across the industry to innovate hardware technology in a way that efficiently supports the growing demands on compute infrastructure. Its OCP Global Summit is the world’s most important open infrastructure conference, with learning opportunities like keynotes and workshops as well as the Experience Center and expo hall to showcase the latest offerings from the OCP community.

Inspur andSamsung jointly announcing Poseidon V2 E3.x reference system
Inspur Electronic Information Industry Co., LTD Information and Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd share the same vision of promoting the OCP platform for broader adoption. Inspur ranks among the world’s top 3 server manufacturers and is involved in 3 major open computing organizations – OCP, ODCC, and Open19 – demonstrating its commitment to taking the lead in advancing the commercialization of open tech. Samsung’s rapid application and continued work on OCP projects has opened the door to collaboration alongside other major system builders, such as Inspur.

Last year’s OCP Tech Week saw the open all-flash storage resource pooling solution jointly developed by Inspur Information and Samsung. This 1U server-based storage solution used the EDSFF 1U Short (E1.S) for high-density servers and data centers. It could accommodate two rows of flash drives to support larger capacity and achieve a flash memory capacity of up to 256TB in 1U.

During this OCP event was launched jointly with Samsung the Poseidon V2 E3.x reference system. This product adopted composable architecture to maximize the benefits of EDSFF E3.x form factor.

Poseidon V2 system can accommodate the PCIe Gen5 SSDs and also various devices like AI/ML accelerators or CXL memory expanders. Data center users can configure the system according to application’s needs.

“Following the development of the E1.S reference system, we expect that this type of storage solution will become one of the most sought-after and cost-effective storage solutions on the market for leading cloud data center servers and hyperscale companies that operate large data centers,” according to Jongyoul Lee, EVP, Samsung’s memory software development team. “We are eager to continue our collaborative work on the E3.S reference system with Inspur to drive further advancements in future server and storage systems.“

“Through our combined vision with Inspur’s general purpose server design and Samsung’s Poseidon, we believe E1.S and E3.x will bring a revolutionary use case that fulfills the need for an efficient high-performance and high-density storage system,” stated Alan Chang, VP of technical operation, Inspur. “Customers who use general purpose severs as their compute can smoothly transition to Poseidon whose modularized design will reduce redundant engineering and validation across the board. We anticipate even broader usage models and applications with the new Poseidon v2 spec.“