AIC and EXTEN Technologies have partnered to provide a dense and scalable, software-defined NVMe-oF solution with record-breaking performance, advanced management, provisioning, and RAID data protection services. This disaggregated storage based on the AIC Shark server provides industry-leading price performance for HPC, analytics and ML/AI applications.
The AIC Shark server is perfect for dense computation, networking, and storage scalability. Four AMD EPYC processors manage storage processing for up to 24 local NVMe drives in its 2U enclosure. The AIC Shark server is an ideal scale-up (add JBOFs) and scale-out (add servers) platform for high-bandwidth shared storage applications that have a variety of data processing requirements.
The EXTEN HyperDynamic datapath running on Shark nodes creates a powerful data processing system with less than one microsecond of software overhead. This results in enhanced performance with the lowest latency available. With simple striping, the 2U system achieves a bandwidth of over 80GB/s. EXTEN supports both RDMA and TCP in parallel for maximum flexibility.
This software management suite offers a single REST interface to manage a cluster of NVMe-oF targets. This allows administrators to provision and manage the AIC Shark with the simplicity of a single machine while maintaining the shared-nothing, linear scalability of NVMe-oF block storage performance. The EXTEN management framework is standards-based which ensures future-proof compatibility. Together, EXTEN software and the AIC Shark provide a perfect framework for implementing any reconfigurable, software-defined NVMe-oF solution.
The combination of AIC Shark, with EXTEN HyperDynamic software, provides highly-available, serviceable, storage that is disaggregated from compute resources. This arrangement allows storage and compute scalability with no sacrifice in performance. EXTEN HyperDynamic storage software allows datacenter architects to select multiple hardware platforms and fabrics while maintaining consistent user experience and the highest possible datapath performance.
The AIC Shark delivers extraordinary performance through the support of the latest AMD processors with CPU TDP up to 200W. Each node of the SHARK supports up to 4TB DDR4-3200/2400 MHz in 8Rx4 DIMM slots for dramatically faster and increased memory capacity. Each node supports up to 6 NVMe (2.5”) drives with hot swap.
