Samsung uses Xilinx FPGA for first adaptable computational storage drives
Samsung Electronics has developed an adaptable storage drive for computational storage using an FPGA from Xilinx.
The SmartSSD CSD is the industry’s first adaptable computational storage platform that can deliver processing of data in the drive rather than using a server in a data centre. The programmable storage platform that developers can use to create a variety of unique and scalable accelerators that solve a broad range of data centre problems. The drive accelerates data processing performance of functions such as encryption, database management, search or video transcoding by 10x or more.
The SmartSSD CSD is a standard 2.5-inch (U.2) form factor solid state drive in a 25W power envelope. It offers a physical storage capacity of 4TBs, with the ability to hold up to 12TBs of data or more when combined with accelerated transparent compression. An integrated Xilinx Kintex UltraScale+ FPGA chip built in the drive provides more than one million system logic cells and nearly 2,000 DSP (digital signal processing) slices for hardware acceleration. 330 LUTs are available for custom IP.
The Xilinx Vitis library of functions can be used to develop applications for the drive without requiring VHDL or Verilog hardware programming. Runtimes, libraries, APIs, and drivers can be built into the system using common high-level languages such as C, C++ and OpenCL.
In addition, Xilinx has launched a high-performance, easy-to-deploy data encryption solution built on dm-crypt. This uses standard Linux kernel modules to create turnkey acceleration applications that scale across multiple SmartSSD CSDs.
“Processing data is the key to unlocking value,” said Pej Roshan, vice president of marketing, Data Center Group at Xilinx. “The SmartSSD CSD empowers a broad new range of developers to harness the benefits of computational storage and quickly deliver compelling applications to solve a host of thorny data center challenges. From transparent compression to next-gen AI inferencing acceleration, the range of functions performed on the SmartSSD CSD is limited only by a developer’s imagination.”
“The industry is beginning to realize just how much the SmartSSD CSD will be able to boost performance in the datacenter and far beyond, and with the latest Xilinx tools for application development we anticipate dramatic growth in a wealth of acceleration applications,” said Jim Elliott, corporate senior vice president of Memory Sales and Marketing at Samsung Semiconductor, Inc.
Related articles
- ARM CORTEX-R82 TARGETS STORAGE COMPUTATION
- ADAPTABLE COMPUTE, NETWORK AND STORAGE ACCELERATOR CARD FITS ALL
Other articles on eeNews Europe
- Sondrel tapes out its largest chip
- Panasonic challenges capacitor failure in graphics cards
- European exascale supercomputer chip project updates its roadmap
- Photonic interconnect for wafer-scale chips
- Kioxia to build 3D-NAND wafer fab
