Based on its ioMemory technology, Fusion-io developed a custom-designed PCI Express card called the ioDrive Octal card. What this product is capable of doing is simultaneously hold eight ioMemory Modules, becoming a card with the combined capacity and performance of eight ioDrives in one. In using this invention, the company was able to achieve the 1TB/s sustained bandwidth with just 220 ioDrive Octal cards, through I/O servers attached to Infinband and running the Lustre parallel file system.This is a major improvement compared to the alternative for reaching such a bandwidth. With normal technology, 1TB/s would barely be achievable by using close to 55,440 disk drives, 396 SAN controllers, 792 I/O servers and 132 racks of equipment. Fussion-io's method uses less than 1/20th of the rack space required by such an aggregate.
“We were eager to take on the challenge of creating a device that meets the intense demands of high performance computing. With this architecture, IOPS are easy. We achieved over a hundred million IOPS, more than enough performance to meet our customer’s requirements. The real power in our architecture was the ability to also scale bandwidth. We look forward to productizing the ioDrive Octal in the future, and bringing the power of this s... (read more)
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