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Kalray MPPA® DPU (Data Processing Units) Processors at the Heart of the Storage Revolution
The MPPA® DPU (Data Processing Unit) processor is at the heart of Kalray’s K200-LP™ NVMe-oF target controller and NVMe smart storage cards, bringing exceptional performances and capabilities. With Kalray DPU acceleration cards, get best performance per Watt and per Dollar on the market while differentiating with unique advanced custom features.
The Flashbox™ is a great example of how Kalray’s DPU smart storage cards can be leveraged to build unique storage solutions.
The latest generations of flash memory and NVMe SSDs offers unparalleled opportunities for data intensive applications such as AI, 5G, IoT, HPC … NVMe SSDs are up to 100 times faster than traditional SSDs, as NVMe protocol unlocks high IOPs, high bandwidth and ultra-low latency.
But NVMe adoption raises unique challenges: Existing solutions are unable to handle this massive performance leap. Kalray storage solutions, based on its unique Data Processing Unit, offer a unique way to unleash the full potential of NVMe SSDs.
Be part of the storage revolution with Kalray’s DPU acceleration cards!
Kalray Awarded at Flash Memory Summit!
The Flashbox™, based on Kalray’s DPU (Data Processing Unit) acceleration cards, won coveted Flash Memory Summit 2022 Best of Show Award!
This award recognizes solutions that demonstrate compelling customer value with market-differentiating benefits.
Our DPU Storage Solutions
DPU ACCELERATION CARDS
Kalray Smart Storage Accelerator Card
Offload all the CPU-demanding storage data services to a Kalray Storage Acceleration card and free-up the CPU for your important business applications.
Based on Kalray’s K200‐LP™ acceleration card (a low‐profile, low power, PCIe Gen4 card), on Kalray’s data intensive DPU (Data Processing Unit) processor and AccessCore® Storage Suite, Kalray Smart Storage Accelerator is a plug & play, fully programmable acceleration card offloading data intensive storage services such as RAID, LVM, Thin Provisioning, Encryption, …
NVME ALL-FLASH-ARRAY
Kalray Flashbox™: Deploy NVMe at Scale with Best Performance per $ and per Watt
Kalray DPU-based Flashbox™ is the first disaggregated NVMe storage array that has been designed from the ground up to leverage the full potential of NVMe flash devices at massive scale, while ensuring the lowest storage Total Cost of Ownership (TCO).
The Kalray Flashbox™ is a plug & play, turn key All-Flash-Array that delivers speeds of up 12MIOPS with extremely low latency and supports up to 24 NVMe SSDs. Kalray Flashbox™ supports all the storage services expected from an Enterprise Grade solution at the speed of NVMe. Kalray Flashbox™ enables you to easily deploy NVMe at scale with best performance per $ and per Watt.
In addition to being fully plug & play, the Kalray Flashbox™ is based on Kalray DPU (Data Processing Unit) technology and is fully programmable to take on custom applications to further offload the CPU complex.
CARDS
Kalray Storage Target Controller: Build Next Generation of NVMe-oF AFA Storage Appliance
Support NVMe and NVMe-oF over TCP & RoCE in addition to all data intensive storage services such as RAID, Thin Provisioning, on a single Kalray’s K200‐LP™ low‐profile,
2x 100Gb/s ethernet, PCIe Gen4 card.
The K200-LP™ Target Controller is fully plug and play as a pass through NVMe-oF controller, and has built-in data services to provide Quality of Service (QoS) to full abstracted Logical Volumes and additionally is a fully programmable SPDK-based DPU offload engine.
AFA: All-Flash-Array
Why Kalray's DPU-Based Storage Solutions
Are so Unique?
Performance-optimized
- Use NVMe SSDs locally or in a disaggregated solution with no impact on performance
- Free-up your main CPU from all the intensive data storage functions
- Unlock resources traditionally within each discrete server
Lowest Storage TCO
- Best performance per $
- Best capacity per $
- Lowest power consumption – up to 15x power savings compared to alternative processors
Kalray MPPA® DPU
(Data Processing Unit)
- A new generation of fully programmable data-centric processors allowing all critical storage functions to run on one single chip
- Highly secure and connected to high-speed fabrics & interfaces
- Support standard protocols (NVMe-oF, NVMe-oF over Ethernet, TCP NVMe-oF, RoCE NVMe-oF )
- Support SPDK Open software environment, on 80 cores, for 20W typ.
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"NVMe-oF JBOF is just starting to experience an uptake in on-premises enterprise DC segments for its ultra-high performance and is ramping aggressively for use by hyper converged infrastructure and in data intensive applications”.
Storage Components
Fully programmable cards that bring the benefits of the MPPA® DPU (Data Processing Unit) technology to data centers for higher performance & more flexible solutions.
Kalray’s MPPA® DPU processor is a new generation of processing accelerator for predominantly data-centric processing tasks.
An SPDK-based open software environment that provides standard APIs and a tool chain with MPPA® DPU-optimized software modules.
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